Confucius Quotes

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

They know enough who know how to learn.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Nobody is born wise.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

Education is more valuable than money. Money can be taken away from you. Education cannot be.