Chinese Quotes

Confucius

• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life
• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
• He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
  
• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
  
• If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
  
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Mencius Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. Read more:Mencius (371 BC - 289 BC) Read more quotes from Mencius