Confucius Quotes in English - 01

Confucius Quotes in English - 01

1.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

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

-Confucius

3.He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

-Confucius

4.Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

-Confucius

5.Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

-Confucius

6.He who will not economize will have to agonize.

-Confucius

7.I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

-Confucius

8.Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

-Confucius

9.To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

-Confucius

10.What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

-Confucius