Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
voice might remember
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
men smell fart
Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
true-knowledge knows limitation
True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.
fall names understanding
All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
different harmony
Be in harmony, yet be different.
knowing cowardice worst
Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
knows ifs
If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
book may three
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
guests vices masters
The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.
deeds language accomplished
If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
men gentleman small-man
The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.
hands rose giving
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
men law wish
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.
speech action worried
Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.