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
Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger
Concience is the best of the books of morality, so we must always make reference to it.
Trying to discover the faults of other people amounts to making no effort to deal with those in oneself.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn
We have not invented courtesy in order to showoff the goodness that does not exist in ourselves.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live
By means of knowledge we raise ourselves above everybody else
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