Teaching Confucius Quotes

#1. Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

#2. I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

Lee Daniels

#3. I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.

James St. James

#4. Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

Rumi

#5. It is fine to be involved in social life and bring life to the community

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

Confucius

#7. The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.

David Rees

#8. I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

Kristin Hersh

#9. In worthy teaching, all things are related.

Confucius

#10. The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Ilana Mercer

#11. Don't think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we've acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.

Steven Pressfield

#12. Cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice.

Vi Keeland

#13. 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

#14. To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away ... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending ...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#15. For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#16. For three months,
a person sits and looks at you,
imagining a kiss.

Etgar Keret

#17. I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

Kiran Desai

#18. To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

Confucius

#19. I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

Confucius

#20. Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Confucius

#21. In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

Confucius

#22. Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

Miguel De Unamuno

#23. Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Confucius

#24. Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon