1. Great courage is like cowardice, great wisdom is like foolishness.
2. When you are high, you are always worried about shortcomings; when you are full, you are always worried about surplus.
3. Caution is much more powerful than boldness.
4. Humility can make a warrior more beautiful.
5. If you are full, what can you do without loss? Be careful! Be careful.
6. The more incompetent someone is, the more pretentious they are.
7. If the general refuses advice, the heroes will disperse; if the policy is not followed, the counselors will rebel.
8. Only if the work is incomplete and the power is not fulfilled, there will be some shortcomings.
9. All true and great things are simple and humble.
10. Be careful not to be exaggerated or extravagant. It is better to say incomplete than to say too much.
11. He who knows others is wise, he who knows himself is wise, he who conquers others is powerful, and he who conquers himself is strong.
12. The ruler is short, the inch is long, the things are insufficient, and the wisdom is unclear.
13. Human beings are usually like dogs. When they hear a dog barking in the distance, they bark too.
14. Arrogance and flattery are a person. If you meet someone who defeats me, you will be flattery. If you meet someone who doesn’t know me, you will be arrogant.
15. If you think of high dangers, you will think of humility and self-herding; if you fear fullness, you will think of rivers and seas.
16. When we are extremely humble, that is when we are closest to greatness.
17. Dissatisfaction with oneself is one of the fundamental characteristics of any truly talented person.
18. Whenever possible, you should imitate yourself and become yourself.
19. Going to war with your head held high and returning home with your tail between your legs is the normal behavior of mediocre and bellicose people.
20. People who have only a little knowledge are often immodest; people who are well-informed and capable must be humble.
21. Don’t boast even a little bit. Pride and complacency will lead to overturning. I have seen many things in ancient and modern times, and success has resulted from humility and failure from extravagance.
22. When you realize that you are a humble person, you are no longer a humble person.
23. Pride and complacency are a terrible trap for us; moreover, this trap is dug by ourselves.
24. We should not put our eyes on the top of our heads, causing our own feet to destroy what we want in the sky.
25. Climbing up a ladder is good, but as long as you still have the strength, it means you must take another step forward.
26. Only when everyone here has stopped talking can you humbly ask questions and learn from others.
27. Most scientists hate superlative adjectives and exaggerations. Great people are generally modest and cautious.
28. The first condition for success is true humility and willingness to give up all your cherished prejudices as long as they are seen to conflict with the truth.
29. In order to completely prevent and overcome varying degrees of subjectivism in our thinking, we can only ask ourselves to maintain a true humility in all situations.
30. A fool is arrogant. What he is proud of happens to be the shortcomings that are ridiculed and ridiculed by others, and he often boasts about things that should be regarded as a great shame and humiliation.
31. When I counted the many wonderful creations invented by mankind in art and literature, and then looked back on my knowledge, I felt that I was extremely shallow.
32. Being lazy to think, unwilling to delve into and understand deeply, complacent or satisfied with trivial knowledge are all causes of intellectual poverty. This kind of poverty is usually called with one word, which is stupidity.
33. A proud person likes to see people who depend on him or flatter him, but hates to see noble people... As a result, these people fool him, cater to his weak heart, and turn him into a fool. A fool turned into a madman.
34. Never fall into pride, because once you are proud, you will be stubborn on occasions where you should agree; because once you are proud, you will reject the advice and help of friendship from others; because once you are proud, you will be stubborn when you should agree. You will lose objective standards.
35. Great people will never abuse their advantages. They see where they are superior to others and realize this, but they will never be immodest because of this. The more people are around, the more they realize their shortcomings.