Confucius Quotes

“Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.”

“A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.”

“Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.”

“Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.”

“Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.”

“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.”

“Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.”

“When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.”

“A picture is poem without words.”

“Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it”

“First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.”

“The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.”

“Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling classthinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.”

“The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.”

“I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.”

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

“Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.”

“A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.”

“To become a leader, you must first become a human being”

“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”

“To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.”

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”

“One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.”

“Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.”

“Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.”