"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life." -- Sandra Carey, inadvertent Confucianist
"别以为知识等于智慧. 前者帮人谋生, 后者帮人做人." -- Sandra Carey, 无意中的儒家
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." -- General Omar Bradley, inadvertent Confucianist
"世间都是核子大人与伦理婴儿. 我们如果在缺乏智慧或缺乏谨慎状态继续发展技术, 我们的仆人会变成我们的刽子手." -- 奥马尔-布莱德利将军, 无意中的儒家
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoy, inadvertent Confucianist
"大家都想改变世界, 但没人想到改变自己." -- 托尔斯泰, 无意中的儒家
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." -- Carl Jung, inadvertent Confucianist
"凡是人家激怒我们的都能导致我们更了解自己." -- 卡尔-荣格, 无意中的儒家
"What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility." -- Daniel Coleman, inadvertent Confucianist
"关于和谐共处, 关键不是你有多么兼容, 而是你怎么样对付不兼容." -- 丹尼尔柯曼, 无意中的儒家
"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." -- Martha Washington, inadvertent Confucianist/Buddhist
"经验告诉我, 我们的快乐或忧患大部分不靠我们的情境, 而靠我们的性情." Martha Washington (乔治°华盛顿夫人), 无意中的儒家
"Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast." -- Viktor Frankl, inadvertent Confucianist
"In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions." -- Margaret Wheatley, inadvertent Confucianist
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there." -- Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974), inadvertent Confucianist/Buddhist
"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -- Albert Einstein, inadvertent Confucianist
"凌乱中寻求简朴. 争吵中寻求和谐. 困难中存有机会." -- 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦, 无意中的儒家
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt, inadvertent Confucianist
"头脑大的人谈论思想; 头脑一般的人谈论事件; 头脑小的人谈论别人." -- 埃莉诺·罗斯福, 无意中的儒家
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." -- Thomas Paine, inadvertent Confucianist
"节制的脾气是永恒的美德; 节制的原则倒是永恒的恶习." -- 托马斯·潘恩, 无意中的儒家
"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."-- Benjamin Disraeli, inadvertent Confucianist
"所有的哲学，从人间的到神圣的，都有同一个中心，那就是节制." -- .迪斯雷利, 无意中的儒家
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew." -- Saint Francis de Sales, inadvertent Confucianist
"考慮到自己不完美的地方可不要喪氣, 反而馬上開始補救 - 天天重新開始." -- 聖方濟各·沙雷氏, 無意中的儒家
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains." -- Democritus, inadvertent Confucianist
“拋開了節制，最大的樂趣就帶來最大的痛苦." -- 德謨克利特, 無意中的儒家
"A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success." -- Otto Von Bismarck, inadvertent Confucianist
"真正的偉人有因三個特色有名：計畫以大度，執行以仁慈，成就以適度." -- 奧托·馮·俾斯麥, 無意識的儒家
"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, inadvertent Confucianist
"絕不走極端, 以節制為向導" -- 西塞羅, 無意中的儒家
“What I dream of is an art of balance.”
— Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), inadvertent Confucianist
"我的夢想是一種均衡的藝術." -- 馬蒂斯, 無意中的儒家
“Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.”
— Jose Ortega y Gasset, inadvertent Confucianist
"秩序不是來自外部對社會的壓力, 而是內部協調的均衡." -- 奧爾特加-加塞特, 無意中的儒家
"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." -- Anthony J. D'Angelo, inadvertent Confucianist
“該珍惜的是你的感情, 不是你所擁有的.” -- 安东尼·J·迪安吉罗, 無意中的儒家
"Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm." -- Jean Paul Richter, inadvertent Confucianist
“行為才給人生以力氣, 好比節制給以風韻.” -- 吉恩·保羅·里克特, 無意中的儒家
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” -- Tennessee Williams, inadvertent Confucianist
"人生一部分是由我們自己創造的, 一部分是我們選做朋友們創造的." -- 田納西·威廉斯, 無意中的儒家
"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty." -- Anonymous English Confucianist
"昌盛時朋友眾多; 逆境時都把你躲." -- 英文的無名儒家
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, inadvertent Confucianist
“要做個好朋友才會有個好朋友.” -- 愛默生, 無意中的儒家
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." -- Cherie Carter-Scott, inadvertent Confucianist
"怒氣把人縮小, 寬恕叫人超越原有的限制." -- 謝麗·卡特·斯科特, 無意中的儒家
"Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people." --- Mario Puzo, inadvertent Confucianist [from The Godfather]
"別發脾氣, 別威脅 人. 跟人家講道理." -- 馬里奧·普佐 (《神父》), 無意中的儒家
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.” — Albert Einstein, inadvertent Confucianist
"你想要描寫真理, 把優美的追求留給裁縫." -- 愛因斯坦, 無意中的儒家
“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.” — Albert Einstein, inadvertent Confucianist
"人類的每種友好合作主要以互相信用為基礎, 而法庭, 警方等的存在是次要的." --愛因斯坦, 無意中的儒家
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein, inadvertent Confucianist
"不要立志做成功的人, 反而要努力長成有價值的人." -- 愛因斯坦, 無意中的儒家
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, inadvertent Confucianist
“要信人，人才會信你； 看待他們寬宏大量，他們才會顯出寬宏大量。” -- 愛默生, 無意中的儒家
“Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.”
— Solon (638 BC - 559 BC), inadvertent Confucianist
“與其信誓言，不如多信卓越的品格.” -- 梭倫, 無意中的儒家
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” — Frank Crane, inadvertent Confucianist
“過分信人可能被欺騙，但不過信人一定會飽受折磨。” -- 弗蘭克克萊恩，無意中的儒家
“It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” — Graham Greene (The Ministry of Fear), inadvertent Confucianist
“人不可能過沒有信任的日子：那就等於被關押在最糟糕的牢房，不外乎自己。” -- 格雷厄姆·格林，無意中的儒家
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” — Samuel Johnson, inadvertent Confucianist
“寧受虐待, 莫虐待人; 寧偶爾受騙, 莫過沒有信任的日子.” -- 賽繆爾·約翰森, 無意中的儒家
“Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.” — Mary Field Belenky (Women’s Ways of Knowing), inadvertent Confucianist
“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.” — Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People), inadvertent Confucianist
“He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.” — Lao Zi, having a Confucianist moment
“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe.” — H. L. Mencken, inadvertent Confucianist
“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, inadvertent Confucianist
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver, inadvertent Confucianist
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." -- George MacDonald ("The Marquis of Lossie"), inadvertent Confucianist
"Trust is a dependency issue." -- Edwin H. Friedman, inadvertent Confucianist
"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem." -- Abraham Lincoln, inadvertent Confucianist
"The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not." -- Bo Lozoff, inadvertent Confucianist
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -- Naguib Mahfouz, inadvertent Confucianist
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." -- Walter Lippmann, inadvertent Confucianist
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." -- Abraham Lincoln, inadvertent Confucianist
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it." -- David Starr Jordan, inadvertent Confucianist
"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy." -- George Santayana, inadvertent Confucianist
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." -- Samuel Johnson, inadvertent Confucianist
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." -- Francis Bacon, inadvertent Confucianist
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." -- Baltasar Gracian, inadvertent Confucianist
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." -- Tryon Edwards, inadvertent Confucianist
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." -- Samuel Smiles, inadvertent Confucianist
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." -- William Saroyan, inadvertent Confucianist
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. -- Theodore Rubin, inadvertent Confucianist
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." -- Thomas Jefferson, inadvertent Confucianist
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." -- Norman Cousins, inadvertent Confucianist
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." -- Stephen Vincent Benét, inadvertent Confucianist
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." -- William Menninger, inadvertent Confucianist [very close to the "5 Constants" of Confucianism: Humanity, Justice, Propriety, Wisdom, Trustworthiness]
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." -- Martin Fischer, inadvertent Confucianist
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." -- Vernon Cooper, inadvertent Confucianist
"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language." -- J. Michael Straczynski, inadvertent Confucianist
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations." -- Isaac D'Israeli, inadvertent Confucianist
“Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.” – Woody Allen, inadvertent Confucianist
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein, inadvertent Confucianist
"Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior," -- Martha Nussbaum, inadvertent Confucianist
"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique." -- James MacGregor Burns, inadvertent Confucianist
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." -- Isocrates, inadvertent Confucianist
"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence." -- Carl Sandburg, inadvertent Confucianist
"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development." -- Felix Adler, inadvertent Confucianist
"Conventionality is not morality." -- Charlotte Bronte, inadvertent Confucianist
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life." -- Edwin Markham, inadvertent Confucianist
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses." -- Shirley Chisholm, inadvertent Confucianist
"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. -- George Bernard Shaw (1903, Man and Superman), inadvertent Confucianist
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." -- Marcus Aurelius, inadvertent Confucianist
"The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself." -- Edward Ericson, inadvertent Confucianist
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato, inadvertent Confucianist
"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." -- Anthony J. D'Angelo, inadvertent Confucianist
"Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others." -- Alice Miller, inadvertent Confucianist
"Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others." -- Sidonie Gruenberg, inadvertent Confucianist
"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation." -- James Freeman Clarke, inadvertent Confucianist
"One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others." -- Moliere, inadvertent Confucianist
"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." -- Thomas Jefferson, inadvertent Confucianist
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." -- Thomas Paine, inadvertent Confucianist
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." John Wooden, inadvertent Confucianist
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." -- Aristotle, inadvertent Confucianist
"A friend is one before whom you may think aloud." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, inadvertent Confucianist
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, inadvertent Confucianist
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, inadvertent Confucianist
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." -- Helen Keller, inadvertent Confucianist
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." -- Robert Southey, inadvertent Confucianist
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." -- Thomas Paine, inadvertent Confucianist
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." -- Moliere, inadvertent Confucianist
"Be moderate in everything, including moderation." -- Horace Porter, inadvertent Confucianist
"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin." -- Tacitus, inadvertent Confucianist
"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind." -- Francois Fenelon, inadvertent Confucianist
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." -- W. Somerset Maugham, realistic Confucianist
“Friendship and loyalty have patience as the strength of their connections. Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven’t been patient” — Rumi, inadvertent Confucianist
"Indeed -- judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgments, learning space and listening carefully are my goals." -- Emma Thompson, inadvertent Confucianist
"Cleverness is not wisdom." -- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), inadvertent Confucianist
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." -- Jim Rohn, inadvertent Confucianist
"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own." -- Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell, inadvertent Confucianist
“Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“You should not live one way in private, another in public.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight." -- Horace, inadvertent Confucianist
“He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
"Injustice never rules forever." -- Seneca, inadvertent Confucianist
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.” － Eleanor Roosevelt, inadvertent Confucianist
"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?" -- Lillian Hellman, inadvertent Confucianist
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people." -- Abraham Lincoln, inadvertent Confucianist
"To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves."
-- Carrie Chapman Catt, inadvertent Confucianist
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti, inadvertent Confucianist
"Historically, the most terrible things -- war, genocide, and slavery -- have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience." -- Howard Zinn, inadvertent Confucianist
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." -- Howard Zinn, inadvertent Confucianist
"As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief, without moral purpose or human interest." -- Archibald Macleish, inadvertent Confucianist
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., inadvertent Confucianist
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." -- Maya Angelou, inadvertent Confucianist
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -- Stephen Jay Gould, inadvertent Confucianist
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass, inadvertent Confucianist
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." -- Henry David Thoreau, inadvertent Confucianist
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." -- Plato, inadvertent Confucianist
"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart." -- Alan Alda, inadvertent Confucianist
"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect." -- Ernest Newman, inadvertent Confucianist
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." -- Henry Fielding, inadvertent Confucianist
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr, inadvertent Confucianist
"'Tis hard (but glorious) to be poor and honest." -- Benjamin Franklin, inadvertent Confucianist
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
-- Dorothy Nevill, inadvertent Confucianist
"If I keep my character, I'll be rich enough." -- Plutonius, inadvertent Confucianist
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." -- Abraham Lincoln, inadvertent Confucianist
"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins." -- Ben Franklin, inadvertent Confucianist
"If the rich could hire people to die for them, the poor could make a nice living." -- Yiddish folk, with a Chinese sense of humor
"If you are not good for yourself, how can you be good for others." -- Spanish anonymous inadvertent Confucianist
“If you call one wolf, you invite the pack." -- Unknown Bulgarian Confucianist
"If you fail to practice your art, it will soon disappear." -- German inadvertent Confucianist
"A friend's eye is a good mirror." - Unknown Gaelic Confucianist
"Don't let the grass grow on the path of friendship." -- Unknown Blackfoot Confucianist
"I can be changed by what happens to me, but i refuse to be reduced by it." -- Maya Angelou, inadvertent Confucianist
"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." -- W. Clement Stone, inadvertent Confucianist
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” — Henry Ward Beecher, inadvertent Confucianist
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.” — Thomas Fuller, inadvertent Confucianist
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” — Ray Kroc, inadvertent Confucianist
“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” —
Peter Drucker, inadvertent Confucianist
“A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.” — Denis Waitley, inadvertent Confucianist
“A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.” —
Baltasar Gracian, inadvertent Confucianist
“Calamity is the test of integrity.” — Samuel Richardson, inadvertent Confucianist
“He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.” — William Congreve, inadvertent Confucianist
“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.” —
Moliere, inadvertent Confucianist
“If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.” — Trevor Nunn, inadvertent Confucianist
“A true friend is one soul in two bodies.” — Aristotle, inadvertent Confucianist
“What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” — Goethe, inadvertent Confucianist
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.” — Joseph Hall, inadvertent Confucianist
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.” — Goethe, inadvertent Confucianist
“Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.” — Jean Paul Richter, inadvertent Confucianist
“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.” — Goethe, inadvertent Confucianist
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” — Thomas Paine, inadvertent Confucianist
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter F Drucker, inadvertent Confucianist
“Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.” — Vanna Bonta, inadvertent Confucianist
“Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.” — Vanna Bonta, inadvertent Confucianist
“Popularity is not an indication of quality.” — Vanna Bonta, inadvertent Confucianist
“There is no hospitality like understanding.” — Vanna Bonta, inadvertent Confucianist
“Learn good manners from those who don't have them.” — anonymous Iranian Confucianist
"If you’re looking for friends when you need them…it’s too late." -- Mark Twain, inadvertent Confucianist
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." -- Anonymous Western Confucian
"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get." -- Bertrand Russell, inadvertent Confucianist
"If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, inadvertent Confucianist
"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." -- Theodore Roosevelt, inadvertent Confucianist
"You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." -- Liz Smith, inadvertent Confucianist
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion." -- G.K. Chesterton, inadvertent Confucianist
"Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon." -- Alexander Pope, inadvertent Confucianist
"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones." --Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." -- Henry David Thoreau, inadvertent Confucianist
"False freedom leaves a man free to do what he likes; true freedom, to do what he ought." -- Anonymous Confucianist
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain, inadvertent Confucianist
"A lie sprints. but truth has endurance." -- Anonymous Confucianist
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained." -- Helen Keller, inadvertent Confucianist
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light." -- Plato, inadvertent Confucianist
"When in doubt, tell the truth." -- Mark Twain, inadvertent Confucianist
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -- Anonymous Confucianist
"Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato, inadvertent Confucianist
“He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.” — Publilius Syrus, inadvertent Confucianist
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.” — Lord Chesterfield, inadvertent Confucianist
“Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.” — Horace, inadvertent Confucianist
“We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.” — Aesop, inadvertent Confucianist
“Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.” — Albert Einstein, inadvertent Confucianist
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy, inadvertent Confucianist
"It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge, inadvertent Confucianist
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." -- Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions), inadvertent Confucianist