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Morality Quote by Confucius

“The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.” quote by Confucius — Download Open image

““The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.””

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Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

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I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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A picture is poem without words.

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Heaven means to be one with God.

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Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

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What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

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“Ethics is a dream.”

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