"True goodness springs from a man's own..." - Quote by Confucius
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
More by Confucius
“Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.”
“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.”
“He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.”
More on Goodness
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.”
“All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.”
More on Human Nature
“There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.”
“The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.”
“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”