Confucius Philosophy Quotes

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

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

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

- Confucius

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

- Confucius

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

- Confucius

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

- Confucius

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

- Confucius

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

- Richard Monckton Milnes

A leader is a dealer in hope.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

- Lao Tzu

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

- Aristotle