Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them he opens the way but does not take them to the place.
Confucius
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Confucius
Philosopher
Teacher
Writer
Zhongni
Confucio
Konfuzius
Kong Fuzi
Kongqiu
Kong Qiu
K'ung-fu-tzu
K'ung-tzu
Kongzi
K'ung Fu-tse
Kung Fu Tzu
Kung Fu-tse
Kongfuzi
Kong Fu Zi
Kungfutse
Way
Ideals
Forward
Students
Suppress
Along
Opens
Teacher
Urges
Place
Pull
Doe
Guides
Take
Ideal
More quotes by Confucius
To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
Confucius
A great man is hard on himself a small man is hard on others.
Confucius
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
Confucius
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
Confucius
To think twice is quite enough.
Confucius
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
Confucius
Time flows away like the water in the river.
Confucius
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Confucius
The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
Confucius
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
Confucius
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
Confucius
Learn as though you would never be able to master it hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Confucius
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.
Confucius
Never tire to study. And to teach to others
Confucius
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
Confucius
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
Confucius
The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
Confucius
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
Confucius
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
Confucius
Sincerity is the end and beginning of things without sincerity there would be nothing.
Confucius
