Quotes from Confucius
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
- Confucius
If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.
- Confucius
Study the past if you want to define the future.
- Confucius
When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.
- Confucius
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
- Confucius
The object of the superior man is truth.
- Confucius
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
- Confucius
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
- Confucius
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
- Confucius
What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
- Confucius
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
- Confucius
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius