More quotes by Confucius

"No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are."
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."