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Other Quotes by Confucius
- Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world
- Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
- I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I…
- When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?
- To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense…
- If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the…
- I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
- The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could…
- Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
- If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from…
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