Quotes About Understanding

There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge.

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

Among his own country folk Confucius wore a homely look, like one that has no word to say.

When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate about; things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Language is insight itself.

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The nobler type of man is broad-minded and not prejudiced. The inferior man is prejudiced and not broad-minded.

LEARN AS THOUGH YOU WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO MASTER IT

Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

There are few men under heaven who can love and see the defects, or hate and see the excellence of an object.

Those who understand a thing are not equal to those who are fond of it, and those who are fond of it are not equal to those who delight in it.

I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.

On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre.

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

The Master said, "You [Zilu], do you know what I have been trying to teach you? To say that you know something when you know it and to say that you do not know something when you do not know it—this is true knowing [zhi].

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Adev?rata cunoa?tere este a-?i ?ti dimensiunea ignoran?ei.

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

Truth does not depart from human nature. If what isregarded as truth departs from human nature, it maynot be regarded as truth.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions