“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.” — Confucius Quote

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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.

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.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!

My entire pregnancy with Major, I was nervous about enduring another long labor.

Over half a century working together on multiple issues, Singaporeans and Americans have made many enduring and close personal friendships.

I just have mysteries in all my books, I think, whether it's a boy investigating or a girl. I have an enduring fascination with mysteries of all kinds.

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.