Confucian Quote by Confucius Download Open image “Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.” — Confucius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confucian Confucianism Hands Virtue Virtuous Wish
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
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 Image
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. — Confucius Copy Share Image
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 Image
Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! — Confucius Copy Share Image
That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
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“Every day the same things came up; the work was never done, and the tedium of it began to weigh on me. Part of… — Cullen Thomas Copy Share Image
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. — Confucius Copy Share Image
