Confucius’s famous sayings

1. Knowing it silently, never getting tired of learning, never getting tired of teaching others, how can it be for me?

Explanation: Memorize (learned knowledge) silently, learn without feeling bored, teach without feeling tired, what is the reason for this for me?

2. If you are so angry that you forget to eat, if you are happy you forget your worries, you don’t know that old age is coming.

Explanation: When you study hard, you forget to eat. When you are intoxicated with knowledge, you forget about sorrow. You don’t know that aging is coming.

3. When three of us travel together, we must be our teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones.

Explanation: Several people are walking together, and one of them must be my teacher. We should choose their strengths to learn from, and pay attention to correcting their shortcomings

4. Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go. Isn't it important to think that benevolence is your duty? Isn't it just a matter of time before death?

Explanation: A truly responsible person must have a strong will, because the responsibility he bears is heavy and the road to realization is long. Because it is one's responsibility to take benevolence as one's responsibility, it is a heavy responsibility. Because the end of life is the end of the mission, the road to realizing benevolence is long and distant.

5. Zi Jue Four: No intention, no necessity, no solidity, no self.

Explanation: Confucius eliminated four shortcomings: no subjective suspicion, no expectations that must be realized, no stubbornness, and no selfishness.

6. Look ahead, suddenly look behind. Master is always good at seducing people. He persuades me with words and invites me with courtesy.

Explanation: (For the teacher’s knowledge and morality), I looked up, and the more I looked, the higher I felt; I worked hard to study, and the more I studied, the more inexhaustible I felt. It seems to be in front, and suddenly it seems to be behind. The teacher was good at guiding me step by step, using various classics to enrich my knowledge, and using various etiquette to restrain my words and deeds, making it impossible for me to stop learning until I exhausted all my strength.

7. Rotten wood cannot be carved.

Explanation: Rotten wood cannot be carved. It is a metaphor that people cannot be made good or that things and situations are corrupt and irredeemable.

Also known as "rotten wood cannot be carved." Also known as "rotten wood cannot be carved."