Confucius Quotes - Page 7

• Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

  Confucius

  Caring, Knowing, Strive

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• Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.

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  Answers, Persons

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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  Lakes, Circles, Perfect

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• If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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  Music, Profound, Desire

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• If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

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  Love, Fear, Integrity

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• A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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• To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, True Knowledge

  "The Analects".

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• Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

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  Reading, Humility, Thinking

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• When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

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  Mother, Father, Distance

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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  Life, Change, Wise

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

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• A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

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  Leadership, Motivation, Mistake

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

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• To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

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  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

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  Hands, Giving, Rose

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• Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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  Friendship, Men, Truthful

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• Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

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  Yoga, Receiving, Guests

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• To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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  Character, Men, Chinese

  Confucius, William Jennings, Epiphanius Wilson (1983). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Random House Value Pub

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• Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

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  Journey, People, Focus

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• A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

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  Men, Soul, Mustache

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• Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.

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  Loyal, Charitable, Neighbour

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• Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

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  Teacher, Learning, Knowledge

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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  Education, Wise, Clever

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

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  Gratitude, Light, Darkness

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