Confucius Quotes - Page 22

• Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

  Confucius

  Science, Tree, Bark

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• If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.

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  Knows, Ifs

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

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  Life, Country, Ill Will

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• While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

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  Men, Law, Land

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.

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  Wise, Bravery, Unhappy

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• A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

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  Men, Knowing, Worry

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

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  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

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  Pride, Doe, World

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• The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

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  Greed, Determined, Resentment

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• Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

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  Leadership, Philosophical, People

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• The superior man limits his achievements.

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  Men, Limits, Superior Man

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• It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

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  Mean, Men, Way

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.431, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

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  Grief, Moving, Growth

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

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  Want, Ifs

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• Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.

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  Shining, Charity, Sun

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, p. 428, 1824.

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• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

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  Life, Business, Philosophical

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• An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

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  Inspirational, Feet, Jade

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• Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

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  Winter, Lasts, Cypresses

  Confucius, Edward Slingerland (2003). “Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries”, p.96, Hackett Publishing

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• Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

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  Fall, Tree, Heaven

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

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  May, Sides, Logic

  Confucius (2016). “Chinese Literature”, p.47, Confucius

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• The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

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  Wise, Men, Mountain

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• If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

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  Mistake, Life Mistakes, Great Mistakes

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• Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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  Thinking, Vices, Looks

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• Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

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  Order, Perfection, Heaven

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

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  Deeds And Words, Gentleman, Would Be

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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