Confucius Quotes - Page 28

• There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

  Confucius

  Character, Secret, Confucianism

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

  Confucius

  Women, Men, Virtue

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• Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.157, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

  Confucius

  Heaven, Earth, May

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.420, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I could see peace instead of this.

  Confucius

  Forgiveness

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• The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

  Confucius

  Military, Government, People

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Teacher, Past

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book Two, Section 2.11),

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• Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,
  small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class
  thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Punishment, Class

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• To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Practice

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• A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

  Confucius

  Hate, Men, Feet

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Desire, Speech

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Heart, Men

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• Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

  Confucius

  Music, Structure, Propriety

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• If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Heart

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

  Confucius

  Names, Language, Rectification

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

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• A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

  Confucius

  Children, Wife, Unions

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• To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

  Confucius

  Errors, Reform, May

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• You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

  Confucius

  People, Force, Certain

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• To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Administration, Excellent

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

  Confucius

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Confucius, William Edward Soothill (1910). “The Analects”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• When frying small fish, disturb them little.

  Confucius

  Littles, Fishes, Frying

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• Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

  Confucius

  Future, Hands, Sorrow

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

  Confucius

  People, Giving, Justice

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