Classic famous sentences and their main meanings in "The Analects of Confucius"

1. If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher.

Those who review old knowledge and then understand new knowledge can become teachers.

2. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger.

If you study without thinking, you will be blinded by the appearance of knowledge; if you think without learning, you will be more dangerous because of doubts.

3. Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, this is knowing.

If you know, say you know it. If you don’t know, admit that you don’t know. This is true wisdom.

4. Once it comes, make peace with it.

The original intention is that since they have been recruited, they must be settled down. Now that the back finger is here, it needs to settle down here.

5. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

If you want to do something better, you must first prepare your own tools.

6. Never tire of learning and teaching.

As a person, you must keep learning and not feel bored; in educating students, you must be patient and not feel tired.

7. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will.

An army can make it lose its leader, but an ordinary person cannot force it to give up its ideas.

8. Be true to your word and bear fruit in your deeds.

Be honest in your speech and decisive in your actions.

9. If his body is upright, he will not do what he is told; if his body is not upright, he will not do what he is told.

The ruler himself behaves properly and things work well without issuing orders. The ruler himself behaves improperly, and even if he gives orders repeatedly, the people will not obey him.