Confucius Quotes

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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We… — Anthony de Mello
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had… — Benjamin Rush
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version… — Yu Dan
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is… — Barbara G. Walker
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence… — Miyamoto Musashi
There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all… — Robin Sharma
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he… — James Russell Lowell
You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like As Confucius say,… — Bruce Lee
Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma… — Joyce Cary
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman â€“ how dense! Confucius… — Zhuangzi
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. — Hu Shih
It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less… — William Coperthwaite
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed… — Norman Geisler
He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also… — Zhuangzi
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm… — Okakura Kakuzo
Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was,… — Lin Yutang
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago. — Philip Jose Farmer

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