Confucius Philosophy Sayings

#1. Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates can bring us good teaching, moral excellence, and religious philosophy. For this they may be commended as rendering help and aid to humanity. But Jesus Christ is different: He brings us Himself as our Life.

Chip Brogden

#2. It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up ...

Confucius

#3. No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

Confucius

#4. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

#5. Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

Confucius

#6. We can't undo what has already happened. Once something's ruined, it can't go back to the way it was.

Haruki Murakami

#7. When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.

Andrew Cherng

#8. The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

Artur Phleps

#9. One must be cold if one wishes to savor chaos.

Ferdinand Hardekopf

#10. An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

Fred Allen

#11. The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

Confucius

#12. I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Aimee Bender

#13. Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

Confucius

#14. In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

Okakura Kakuzo

#15. Lighten your life with a simple life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Confucius

#17. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

#18. It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

Stephen R. Covey