Blowing out other people's lights won't make you brighter. This sentence comes from the famous saying of Confucius, an ancient philosopher in China. Confucius Confucius (September 28th, 55 BC1year-April 28th, 479 BC +0 1 year) was born in China (now Qufu, Shandong), an ancient thinker, educator and Confucian school.