The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present." — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) — Confucius Copy Share Image
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11) — Confucius Copy Share Image
The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius Copy Share
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men;… — Confucius Copy Share
Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! — Confucius Copy Share
