Confucius Quotes - Page 23

• All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

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  Fall, Names, Understanding

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• The cautious seldom err.

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  Leadership, Mistake, Failure

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

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  Heaven, May, Regulation

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.283

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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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• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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  Believe, Age, Aging

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• In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

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  Sincere, Honorable, Ten

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• Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

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  Sincerity, Faithfulness, Highest

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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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• A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

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  Wise, Science, Men

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• A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

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  Dance, Character, Dancing

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• The superior man limits his achievements.

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  Men, Limits, Superior Man

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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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• Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

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  Would Be, Sincerity, Ends

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.418, Courier Corporation

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• In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

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  Enough, Clear

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• Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

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  Justice, Gentleman, Favors

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• The more people know, the more they forgive.

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  Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

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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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• 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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• When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

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  Past, Men, Hands

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

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  Trying, Use, Deceiving

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

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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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• he who will not economize will agonize

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• The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

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  Giving Up, Character, Men

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "The Ethics of Confucius".

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• Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

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  Wise, Men, Astrology

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