Confucius Quotes - Page 15

• Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

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  Education, Practice, Study

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

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  Inspirational, Life, Law

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• The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

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  Motivation, Army, Men

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

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  Friendship, Men, Air

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

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  Deep Life, Knows

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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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• Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

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  Horse, Mouths, Four

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• Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

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  Growth, Population, Levels

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• The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

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  Character, Men, Partisans

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• Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

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  Knows

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• The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.

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  Distance, Men, Good Man

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• Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

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  Mean, Clouds, Water

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• See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

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  Character, Mean, Motive

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

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  Love, Philosophy, Educational

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• Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.114, Open Road Media

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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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• Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

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  Life, Wise, Organization

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• A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

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  Might, Matter, Projects

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• It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "The Analects".

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• Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

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  Wise, Adversity, Men

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• Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

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  Men, Lessons, Joyful

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• Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

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  Yoga, Simple, Virtue

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• A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

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  Men, Doe, Ruthlessness

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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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• The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

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  Men, Gentleman, Small Man

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