Category Quotations

Confucius says: “Learn avidly. Question it repeatedly. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.”

Confucius says: “It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”

Confucius says: “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

Confucius says: “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

Confucius says: “In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.”

Confucius says: “Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”

Confucius says : “If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.”

Confucius says: “If you don’t want to do something, don’t impose on others.”

Confucius says: “If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”

Confucius says: “If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one’s entire life, perhaps it would be ‘thoughtfulness.”