Confucius Quotes Page 4

“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.”

“It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great,”

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”

“It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”

“It is only when mosquito land on your balls that you realize there is a way to solve problems without using violence.”

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”

“Learn avidly. Question it repeatedly. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.”

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”

“Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life – however, it can spoil it, too.”

“Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.”

“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. ”

“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.”

“Men’s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.”

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”

“Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.”

“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”

“Never tire to study. And to teach to others.”

“No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.”

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

“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 a spectator.”

“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”

“Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance.”