Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
able faults virtue
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
kindness real people
Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
inspirational faults
Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
leader firsts humans
To become a leader, you must first become a human being
excess spirit
Excess weakens the spirits.
pride world care
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
men nature-of-man provinces
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
practice study pleasure
To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?
jobs men he-man
The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.
character men pay
A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
leadership order people
It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.
integrity golden-rule
Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.
men reliability useless
A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.
thank-you support parent
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.