"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought..." - Quote by Confucius

“Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.”

“Rotten wood cannot be carved.”

“Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?”

“The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.”

“True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.”

“Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.”

“If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid”

“For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But the remedies proposed for these problems all come out of outmoded ways of thinking... The remedy? Compassion. The logical feeling that we find in ourselves if we search deeply enough that has to be exercised toward all other living creatures.”