Quotes from Confucius
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
- Confucius
Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.
- Confucius
If there were an honorable way to get rich, I'd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn't an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
- Confucius
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
- Confucius
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.
- Confucius
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
- Confucius
Return good for good; return evil with justice.
- Confucius
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.
- Confucius
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
- Confucius
I am not an originator but a transmitter.
- Confucius
You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.
- Confucius
When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.
- Confucius