Confucius Quotes - Page 24

• To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Keys, Understanding

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• He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

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  Successful, Intelligent, Chinese

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Confucius

  Fall, Names, Understanding

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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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  Happiness, Sympathy, Philosophical

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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.

  Confucius

  Past, Men, Hands

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

  Confucius

  Knowledge, Knows

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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  Law, Punishment, People

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Positive, Needs

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• Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

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  May, Sides, Logic

  Confucius (2016). “Chinese Literature”, p.47, Confucius

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• If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

  Confucius

  Happiness, Men, Confucianism

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

  Confucius

  Sincerity, Faithfulness, Highest

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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

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  Fate, Today, Wheels

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• First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Mistake, Faithful

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

  Confucius

  Delight, Knows

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

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  Strong, Giving Up, Progress

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

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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.

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  Heaven, Earth, May

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

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• If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

  Confucius

  Done, Way, Firsts

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• Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

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  Educational, Goal, Missing

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

  Confucius

  Profound, Joy, Parent

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

  Confucius

  Learning, Goal, Losing

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• Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

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  Perfect, Path, Facts

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.2, Delphi Classics

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• The funniest people are the saddest once

  Confucius

  Love, Funny, Sad

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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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• Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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