Quotes from Confucius
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
- Confucius
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
- Confucius
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
- Confucius
A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
- Confucius
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
- Confucius
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
- Confucius
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.
- Confucius
Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.
- Confucius
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
- Confucius
The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.
- Confucius
One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.
- Confucius
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
- Confucius