"The Master said, "To study, and then..." - Quote by Confucius

“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”

“A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

“Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.”

“How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?”

“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.”

“To know and not do, is to not yet know.”

“Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.”