As Chinese, Confucius’ thoughts have penetrated and integrated into our bone marrow, so do you know what some of Kuanzi’s famous aphorisms about reflection are. The following are the famous aphorisms of Confucius on reflection that I share with you. I hope you like them! Selected famous aphorisms of Confucius on reflection

1. Rotten wood cannot be carved.

Explanation: Rotten wood cannot be carved. It is a metaphor that people cannot be improved or things and situations are corrupt and irredeemable. Also written as "Rotten wood cannot be carved". Also written as "Rotten wood cannot be carved".

2. The Master taught four things: literary conduct, loyalty and trustworthiness.

Explanation: Confucius educated his disciples from four aspects: 1. Literature, that is, famous studies. Study how to increase visibility, and secondly, practice learning and standardize people's behavior so that people's words and deeds can be followed. 3. Loyalty is a matter of self-cultivation. It is to cultivate people to do what they should do voluntarily. 4. Faith learning is the learning of knowing people and distinguishing things, and the learning of cultivating people's judgment.

3. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.

Explanation: A gentleman is broad-minded and tolerant of others; a villain is petty and narrow-minded.

4. He is sensitive and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions. This is why he is called "literary".

Explanation: It means not to be ashamed to ask for advice from people whose status and knowledge are lower than yours. Therefore, the character "文" can be used as his posthumous title.

5. Its knowledge is within reach, but its stupidity is beyond reach.

Explanation: His cleverness can be learned, but his pretending to be stupid cannot be matched by others.

6. If quality is better than literature, the result will be wild; if literature is better than quality, history will be achieved. Be gentle and polite, then be a gentleman.

Explanation: If simplicity exceeds ornamentation, it will be rough; if ornamentation exceeds simplicity, it will be vain. Only if simplicity and ornamentation are in the right proportion can one become a gentleman.

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. Explanation: Those who understand it are not as good as those who love it; those who love it are not as good as those who take pleasure in it.

9. When a bird is about to die, its song is mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are also kind.

Explanation: When a bird is about to die, its chirping sound is sad; when a person is about to die, its words are also kind.

10. If you are above the middle person, you can speak well; if you are below the middle person, you cannot speak well.

Explanation: Confucius said: People with above-average qualifications can be taught profound truths; people with below-average qualifications can hardly be taught profound truths.

11. A wise person enjoys water, and a benevolent person enjoys mountains. The wise are active, the benevolent are still, the wise are happy, the benevolent are long-lived.

Explanation: Smart people love water, and virtuous people love mountains; smart people are active, and virtuous people are quiet. Wise people are happy, and virtuous people live long.

12. Similar in nature, but far apart in habits.

Explanation: When people are born, they are all kind in nature and have very similar temperaments. However, with the different changes and influences of their respective living environments, everyone's habits will vary.

13. Learning without thinking is a waste, thinking without learning is a disaster.

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

14. Isn’t it just right to learn something and practice it over time? Isn’t it nice to have friends from afar? Isn’t it a gentleman if a person doesn’t feel embarrassed if he doesn’t know?

Explanation: Isn’t it a pleasure to learn and review and practice from time to time? Isn’t it gratifying to have like-minded people coming from afar? People don’t understand me, and I don’t resent or get angry. Aren’t I also a virtuous gentleman?

15. Hearing the Tao and talking in vain is the abandonment of virtue!

Explanation: Hearing rumors on the road and spreading them everywhere is abhorred by morality.

16. In French, can it be said that it is useless? Change it to expensive. If you hold your hand and talk to it, you can say nothing.

Explanation: If it is correct, can you not obey it? You must correct your mistakes seriously to be considered valuable. If you are respectful, can you not make people happy?

17. If you are respectful, you will not be insulted, if you are tolerant, you will win people, if you are trustworthy, you will be trusted, if you are sensitive, you will be successful, and if you are kind, you will be able to make people happy.

Explanation: Being dignified will prevent you from being insulted, being generous will win the support of everyone, being honest will help you get the appointment of others, being diligent and agile will improve your work efficiency, and being kind will help you control others. Confucius’ famous aphorisms about reflection

1. Think about what you see.

Explanation: It means to think of morality when seeing wealth.

2. When you see good things, you are like exploring the soup.

Explanation: When I see good people or good things, I am afraid that I will not have time to learn from them and do them too late. When you see evil people or do bad things, it's like coming into contact with hot water. You want to leave immediately and stay away.

3. A gentleman seeks the road but not food; a gentleman worries about the road but not poverty.

Explanation: It is said that a truly knowledgeable gentleman who takes the world and the country as his own responsibility only worries about the failure of his way and does not consider the problems of life; for example, when cultivating fields, he only cares about the cultivation but not about the harvest. I only worry about my own character, not whether I am poor or not.

4. Someone who looks fierce but has a weak heart is like a villain, he is like a thief who passes through a tunnel!

Explanation: Appearance: Appearance Stern and weak-hearted, such villains are like thieves who dig holes in walls.

5. Those who know something from birth are the best; those who know it through learning are the next best thing; those who learn it through difficulty are the next best thing. If you are poor and don’t learn, you will be a poor person!

Explanation: Those who are born with knowledge are the best people; those who learn through learning are the second-class people; those who learn after encountering difficulties are the best people. The second-class person; the person who still does not learn when encountering difficulties is the lowest!?

6. Scholars who aspire to the Tao, but are ashamed of those who wear bad clothes and eat badly, are not worthy of discussion.

Explanation: If a scholar is determined to pursue the truth and is ashamed of not being well-dressed or well-fed, then it is not worth talking to him.

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

Explanation: An army can lose its commander, but a person cannot lose his ambition. It means that the courage of the three armies lies in others, and the ambition of every man lies in himself. Therefore, the commander can be captured but the ambition cannot be captured. If it can be taken away, it is not worthy of being called ambition.

8. The old are at peace with it, the friends trust it, and the young are pregnant with it.

Explanation: I want the elderly to be comfortable, friends to trust each other, and young people to be cared for.

9. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither.

Explanation: In the severe cold season, we realize that pine and cypress trees do not shed their leaves. Just as a scholar knows integrity when he is poor, he knows loyal ministers when the world is in chaos. ?

10. It is not enough for a scholar to aspire to the Tao, but to be ashamed of those who wear bad clothes and eat badly.

Explanation: A scholar who is determined to learn and pursue the truth but is ashamed of poverty is not worthy of discussing the truth with him. About Confucius’ famous aphorisms about reflection

1. He who hears the Tao in the morning will die in the evening. Explanation: If you learn the truth in the morning, you will not regret it even if you die that night. ?Meaning: ?Life is endless and learning is endless.

2. Look at the reason, observe the reason, and observe where it is. How can a person be thin? How can a person be thin?

Explanation: To understand a person, you must look at what he has done, not only understand his past, but also observe his present. In this case, you have to understand that person. Will our understanding be incomplete?

3. Reviewing the past and learning the new can make you a teacher.

Explanation: People who can gain new knowledge when reviewing the knowledge they have learned can become teachers.

4. Isn’t it a joy to have friends come from afar?

Explanation: Isn’t it a joy to have like-minded people coming from afar?

5. If we have different paths, we will not seek each other.

Explanation: People with different political opinions do not discuss each other. What is talked about here is a principle of friendship. The principle is to share the same Tao and not to seek each other if the Tao is different. Because they have different political opinions, they cannot discuss each other. The same goes for making friends. It's difficult for people who don't share the same path to make friends.

6. The deceased is like a man! He does not give up day and night.

Explanation: The past time is like this river, flowing day and night.

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.

Explanation: People who know how to study are not as good as people who love studying, and people who love studying are not as good as people who enjoy studying.

8. Don’t worry about what you don’t know, seek what you can know.

Explanation: Don’t be afraid that others won’t know you, just strive to achieve your own results.

9. A gentleman seeks everything from himself, while a villain seeks everything from others.

Explanation: A gentleman is strict with himself, while a villain is strict with others.

10. The beauty of a gentleman is not the evil of a man.

Explanation: A gentleman accomplishes the good things of others and does not promote the bad things of others.

11. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.

Explanation: A gentleman is open-minded and treats people and things as if he were walking on a flat road, peaceful and comfortable; a villain is always obsessed with things and worries about gains and losses, so he is always worried.

12. Making mistakes without correcting them is called making mistakes.

Explanation: Failure to correct mistakes is a real mistake.

13. A little impatience will mess up a big plan.

Explanation: If you cannot tolerate small things, you will ruin big things. The small things here include two meanings: small anger and small benevolence, that is, a woman's kindness cannot be tolerated in love; a man's courage cannot be tolerated in anger, both of which can disrupt big plans.

14. If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.