Teacher Quotes by Confucius

18 Teacher quotes by Confucius

These eighteen ancient sayings provide a solid snapshot of how a classic philosopher valued the educator’s role. They stress respect, moral development, and the lifelong nature of learning, all in a compact format.

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

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

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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

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When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

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Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

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Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good…

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When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad…

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Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other…

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Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

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“Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and…

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If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

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The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11)

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If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's…

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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away…

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The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress…

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

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

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Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

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I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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A picture is poem without words.

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Heaven means to be one with God.

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Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

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