In the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius was revered as a "sage". He had two thousand disciples, and everyone asked him for advice. His "The Analects of Confucius" has been handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

Confucius was knowledgeable, but he was still open-minded to ask for advice from others. Once, he went to the Ancestral Temple to worship his ancestors. As soon as he entered the Ancestral Temple, he felt novel and asked other people this and that. Someone laughed and said: "Confucius is outstanding in knowledge, why do you still ask?" After hearing this, Confucius said: "You have to ask about everything, what's wrong with that?" His disciples asked him: "After Kong Yu died, why did he call him Kong Wenzi? Confucius said: "Only those who are smart and eager to learn are worthy of being called 'Wen'." The disciples thought: "Teachers often ask others for advice, and they don't feel ashamed."

He is open-minded and willing to learn from others. People, including learning from people with lower status than themselves, are called "not ashamed to ask".

There are too many famous sayings of Confucius, so I won’t list them all. My favorite is: Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.