86 Quotes By Confucius


Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius on future

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius on god

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius on good

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius on good

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius on good

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius on good

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius on good

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius on government

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius on government

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius on great

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius on happiness

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius on history

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius on home

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius on intelligence

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius on knowledge

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius on knowledge

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius on leadership

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius on learning

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius on learning

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius on learning