Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Confucius
Confucius.
| Born | Kongfuzior K'ung-fu-tzu 551 B.C. Lu, China |
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| Died | 479 B.C. Lu, China |
Ancient Chinese philosopher. Renaissance man who excelled in history, pottery, archery, music, and mathematics. Best known for his Analects which detailed his philosophy that came to be called Confucianism.
The repository contains six quotes from Confucius.
A picture is worth ten thousand words.
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Give a hungry person a fish, he eats for a day, teach a hungry person to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
It is only the wisest and the stupidest of men that never change.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
