Inspirational Quotes by Confucius · Page 4

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

— Confucius

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women,

— Confucius

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

— Confucius

We should worship as though the deity were present.

— Confucius

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?

— Confucius

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

— Confucius

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how…

— Confucius

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

— Confucius

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

— Confucius

Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of…

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in…

— Confucius

He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is…

— Confucius

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the…

— Confucius

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

— Confucius

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

— Confucius

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

— Confucius

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

— Confucius

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

— Confucius

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

— Confucius

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

— Confucius

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

— Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.

— Confucius

Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

— Confucius

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

— Confucius

What you know you know. What you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.

— Confucius

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

— Confucius

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

— Confucius

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

— Confucius

“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

— Confucius