Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Quote by Confucius
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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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Confucius Quotes
- He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
- When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
- Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.
- Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
- You cannot open a book without learning something.
Best Quotes
- Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
- My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
- He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.