Funny Quotes by Confucius · Page 2

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

— Confucius

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

— Confucius

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

— 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

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— 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

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

— Confucius

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

— Confucius

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

— Confucius

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for…

— Confucius

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

Dont complain about the snow on your neighbors roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

— Confucius

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.

— Confucius

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

— Confucius

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

— Confucius