Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
learning mind growing
The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'
yoga self moral-growth
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
growth levels may
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
failure grow man plants pulled rice sung worried
There was a man from Sung who pulled at his rice plants because he was worried about their failure to grow
arm bent joy midst pillow rice water
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
force impossible knowing words
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
heaven way sincerity
Sincerity is the way of heaven.
love inspirational funny
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
spiritual goodness endure
Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness
educational past confucianism
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
integrity men may
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
integrity men fire
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
integrity men morality
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
integrity no-friends faults
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.