Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Confucius
Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
Confucius
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
The nature of men is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.
Confucius
The demands that good people make are upon themselves;
Those that bad people make are upon others.
Confucius
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
The essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
Confucius
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavouring to think so ourselves.
Confucius
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
Confucius
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
Confucius
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
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