Confucius Quotes - Page 3

• A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

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  Men, People, Progress

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• Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

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  Education, Teacher, Powerful Weapons

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• The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

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  Wisdom, Names, Naming Things

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

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  Responsibility, Men, Virtue

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

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  Doe, Crowds, Harmony

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Yoga

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

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  Strong, Light, Opposites

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• To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

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  Able, Faults, Virtue

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• The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

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  Men, Can Not

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• roads were made for journeys not destinations

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  Journey, Made, Destination

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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  Life, Success, Mistake

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• If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

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  Inspiring, Children, Years

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• Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

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  Remember, Divine

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• When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

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  Wise, Moon, Men

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• There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

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  Victory, Lessons, Defeat

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• Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

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  People, Liberty, Libertarian

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• It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

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  Purpose

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• Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.

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  True Love, Love You, Judging

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• He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

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  Life, Wisdom, Answers

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• The chase of gain is rich in hate

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  Hate, Gains, Rich

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

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  Men, Clothes, Study

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• The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

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  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving

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• There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.

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  Things In Life, Never Change, One Thing

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• The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

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  Men, Gentleman, Doe

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

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