Confucius Quotes

Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend.

I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance

Una casa será fuerte e indestructible cuando esté sostenida por estas cuatro columnas: padre valiente, madre prudente, hijo obediente, hermano complaciente.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.

The Master said, “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” The Master said, “The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!” The Master said, “Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge.

While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.

No matter where you go, there you are.