Quotes About Filial Piety

#1. Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Alan Dundes

#2. A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

Confucius

#3. The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

Edward Gibbon

#4. 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.

Confucius

#5. When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

Laozi

#6. Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

Zengzi

#7. Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other.

Inazo Nitobe

#8. Imagination is evidence of the divine, and the divine is the imagination of evidence.

Erik Banks

#9. If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations because the form that had those incarnations has dissolved into the clear light of reality.

Frederick Lenz

#10. It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

Henry Reed

#11. Mean people are meaningless.

Alice Hoffman

#12. For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire,
Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
What dost thou in this living tomb?

Matthew Arnold

#13. You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality.

Ray Bradbury

#14. It's love in general I don't want, Tate. Ever. It's you specifically that I just...want.

Colleen Hoover

#15. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. There's

Margaret Atwood