All Confucius Quotes
- I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. Complaining
- Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me Author
- Man with hole in pocket, feel cocky all day. All
- Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. Discharge
- Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if… Birth
- Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Funny
- Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be… Driving
- He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. Equal
- Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults. Ashamed
- Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand. Brigand
- The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their… Complete
- Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never… Course
- When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he… Attain
- Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who… Antiquity
- Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be… Assistance
- First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally… Community
- Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness Cannot Enjoy
- Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world Close
- Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. Ah
- A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears. Contemplation
- Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for… Cherish
- He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. Discipline
- He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be… Day
- The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. Forgive
- I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer… Any