Confucius’ classic sayings related to learning are as follows:

1. One can become a teacher by reviewing the past and learning the new.

2. If the Holy Spirit means I can’t do it, I will never tire of learning and never tire of teaching.

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

4. Those who are evil must be observed; those who are good must be observed.

5. Aspire to the Tao, base on virtue, rely on benevolence, and swim in art.

6. I am not a person who is born with knowledge, but a person who loves the ancient times and is keen to pursue them.

7. Those who know are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy.

8. If I can restrain myself, I will never be without a sea.

9. A gentleman has nothing to eat and nothing to satisfy, and nothing to live in peace. He is sensitive to things but careful in his words.

10. If you don’t learn poetry, you won’t be able to express it.

11. It is like a mountain. It has not yet formed a fence. If it stops, I will stop. It's like a flat ground. Even if I cover a fence, if I advance, I will leave.

12. To know something is to know it, and to know something is not to know it, which is knowledge.

13. Those who are born knowing are the best; those who know through learning are the second; those who are tired and learn are the second; those who are tired and do not learn are the worst.

14. It is difficult to have a full day without any intention.

15. Hear the Tao in the morning and die in the evening.

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

17. People have no permanence and cannot be witch doctors.

18. If you are not angry, you will not be enlightened, and if you are not angry, you will not be angry. If you take one corner and don't turn it back with three, there will be no recovery.

19. I don’t eat all day long and stay up all night thinking about it, which is of no use and is not as good as learning.

20. The sun knows where one is dead, and the moon does not forget what one can do. It can be said that he is eager to learn.