If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Quote by Confucius
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If we don't know life, how can we know death?
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Confucius Quotes
- Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
- You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
- He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
- Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.
- Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- The object of the superior man is truth.
- Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Best Quotes
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
- Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
- Everyone can write, but not everyone can be a poet.
- If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
- You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
- We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
- Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
- Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.