1,153 Quotes by Confucius

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.