Confucian Quotes
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He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
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Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
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The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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In the Confucian tradition is a simple formula that appeals to me deeply: 'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.' I urge everyone to reflect deeply on these words, as simple as they are profound.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
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There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
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