Quotes About Confucius

#1. As Confucius said many years ago:

Robin S. Sharma

#2. I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

Eric Cantor

#3. Adept Lu spent a night at Stone Date, and the gatekeeper asked: Where are you from? From the House of Confucius, replied Lu. Isn't he the one who knows it's hopeless, but keeps trying anyway?

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#4. Confucius taught this when he said, "The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior man, what is profitable.

Bohdi Sanders

#5. Among his own country folk Confucius wore a homely look, like one that has no word to say.

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#6. 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

#7. You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.

Amanda Hocking

#8. Confucius said: "I do not see what use a man can be put to, whose word cannot be
trusted."
- The Analects of Confucius, 2.22
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Judith A. Boss

#9. I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That people are still reading and repeating what he said so long ago is something I find quite fascinating.

Russell Freedman

#10. If we find ourselves tempted to celebrate one approach over the other, we should remember the caution of the Chinese sage Confucius, who told his followers, "Study without thinking and you are blind; think without studying and you are in danger." Formal

Kent Nerburn

#11. There is great power in focusing on what you want ... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

Robin Sharma

#12. Confucius said: "You are never in a position to learn unless you are totally confused.

Marcus Gibson

#13. There is a war out there, and believe me, Fly, it was never really between Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Crusaders and Confucius. The final battle is between those who love, respect, and liberate the body and those who hate it

Rawi Hage

#14. Ho Chi Minh successfully accomplished his cause to free his country despite the opposition of France and the United States. This achievement required the efforts of a man that was part Lenin, part Gondi, part Confucius, and all Vietnamese.

Chris Diamond

#15. Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

Christopher Moore

#16. It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security.

Doug Stanhope

#17. Unlike Confucius, Madison maintained that people have a limited capacity to control their passions themselves and act virtuously when their individual interests conflict with others.

Patrick Mendis

#18. Confucius said,To know that you don't know is the beginning of knowing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#19. Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

Lewis Carroll

#20. You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like As Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.

Bruce Lee

#21. Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Hu Shih

#22. Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the
same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#23. I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.

Matthew Tindal

#24. Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.

Joyce Cary

#25. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer

Max Tegmark

#26. Confucius himself taught that the more laws a society has, the less people will obey them and that societies that depend on laws to control the behavior of their citizens will eventually self-destruct.

Boye Lafayette De Mente

#27. If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.

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#28. America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Patrick Mendis

#29. Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Evan Osnos

#30. 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

#31. The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

Karen Armstrong

#32. Confucius say ... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

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#33. It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

William Coperthwaite

#34. So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

Norman Geisler

#35. Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.

Benjamin Rush

#36. Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

Gerald Vizenor

#37. I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

F. Sionil Jose

#38. As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

John Lanchester

#39. By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not.

Han Fei

#40. Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

Pearl S. Buck

#41. No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#42. Man's greatest excuse to delay the inevitable." "Can you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?" "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake." Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me.

Krista Ritchie

#43. Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

Tori Amos

#44. "Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.

Anonymous

#45. Confucius say man who get kicked in testicles left holding bag.

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#46. The journey of a thousand leagues starts with a single step" - Confucius

Alan Morgan

#47. Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#48. You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Salman Rushdie

#50. Confucius said, People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration.

Sun Tzu

#51. Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit.

Stephen King

#52. every Chinese person is familiar with Kongzi, or 'Master Kong', as Confucius is known in Chinese.

Meher McArthur

#53. Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day

Sylvia Day

#54. I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.

Russell Freedman

#55. Confucius said, "Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves." I planned to dig seven.

Lili St. Germain

#56. Confucius himself has repeatedly taught that external appurtenances are as little a part of propriety as sounds are of music.

Inazo Nitobe

#57. Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Josh McDowell

#58. 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

#59. Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

Philip Jose Farmer

#60. As Confucius says, Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away.

Norman Vincent Peale

#61. A person's decisions are only as good as the information he/she has.
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Robert Nordmeyer

#62. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Pearl S. Buck

#63. In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely ... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius ...

Okakura Kakuzo

#64. Confucius sat down to rest, and his students immediately started asking him questions. On that day, he was in a good mood and so decided to answer. Someone asked him:

Paulo Coelho

#65. Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

Steve Berry

#66. In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.

Evan Osnos

#67. Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.

Huston Smith

#68. When you see a good person, think about evaluating that person. When you see a bad person, think about evaluating yourself. - CONFUCIUS

Steve DeMasco

#69. Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

Evan Osnos

#70. Confucius say wife who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cathouse.

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#71. Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in.

Yangsze Choo

#72. Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced "ooh-way." This is a state of spontaneous flow.

Anonymous

#73. To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Evan Osnos

#74. Confucius say better to be pissed off than pissed on.

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#75. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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#76. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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#77. The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

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#78. A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

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#79. Is it not indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and constantly to exercise oneself therein?

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#80. Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

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#81. I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

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#82. Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

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#83. Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

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#84. The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path.

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#85. Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

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#86. Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,
small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class
thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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#87. A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

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#88. Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

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#89. When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

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#90. Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

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#91. If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

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#92. He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.

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#93. They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

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#94. The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

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#95. Don't look for a black cat in a dark room, especially if it is not there ...

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#96. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

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#97. When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

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#98. If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

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#99. We should worship as though the deity were present.

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#100. It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

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