1,153 Quotes by Confucius

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

知之者不如好之者，好之者不如樂之者。”“Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

Adept Lu spent a night at Stone Date, and the gatekeeper asked: Where are you from? From the House of Confucius, replied Lu. Isn’t he the one who knows it’s hopeless, but keeps trying anyway?

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, ‘Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything’. The Master heard of it and said, ‘This is the ritual’.

Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.