Funny Quotes by Confucius · Page 2

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

— Confucius

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

— Confucius

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

— Confucius

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

— Confucius

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

— Confucius

I could see peace instead of this.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

— Confucius

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

— Confucius

He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Whatever heaven ordains is best.

— Confucius

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

— Confucius

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

— Confucius

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true…

— Confucius

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

— Confucius

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

— Confucius

The funniest people are the saddest once

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

— Confucius

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

— Confucius

Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.

— Confucius

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

— Confucius