Chinese Quote by Confucius Download Open image “Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.” — Confucius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Education Impress Past Scholar Study Today
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves. — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.” — Stefan Klein Copy Share Image
“The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.” — Novalis Copy Share Image
I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems.… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
I've benefited greatly from studying many effective people from history. Among those who've influenced me the most are Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, and Winston… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space… — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
