Quotes from Confucius
You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Confucius
The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
- Confucius
The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
- Confucius
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
- Confucius
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius
If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.
- Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
- Confucius
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
- Confucius
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
- Confucius
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
- Confucius