Wisdom Quote by Confucius — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.”

“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”

“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.”

“When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.”

“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”

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

“If you want something, work for it. Prayer is super-fantstic, faith is 'mwah'! But work is necessary and important. So work for what you want.”

“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.”

“you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.”

“Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.”

“Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.”

“Experience,’ he had been wont to say—being rather addicted, I gather, to the making of epigrammatic formulæ—‘is the hornbook of fools, unnecessary for the practical purposes of life to the man of wit.”