"I am not an originator but a..." - Quote by Confucius
I am not an originator but a transmitter.
More by Confucius
More on Knowledge
“It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.”
“If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.”
“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.”
More on Tradition
“Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.”
“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.”
“[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.”