Confucius Quotes About Progress
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Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.
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It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.
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A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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