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Confucius’ famous sayings and their sources and translations

Confucius’ classic sayings and aphorisms:

1. Be true to your words and be resolute in your deeds. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: You must be trustworthy in your words and resolute in your actions.

2. Once it comes, make peace with it. (The Analects of Confucius, Ji Shi)

Translation: The original intention is that since they have been recruited, they must be settled down. Now that Hou Zhi is here, he must settle down here.

3. If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. (Ren in The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: If you understand the truth in the morning, you will have no regrets even if you die that night!

4. It is tolerable, but what is intolerable? (Eight Hundreds of The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: If this kind of thing can be tolerated, what other things cannot be tolerated?

5. If you are not angry, you will not be enlightened, and if you are not angry, you will not be angry. If you don't use three countermeasures to take an example, you will never recover. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: (Teaching students) Don’t enlighten them until they think hard but still can’t understand; don’t enlighten them until they want to say something but can’t say it. he. Tell him one angle (of a square). If he cannot infer the other three angles from it, don't teach him again.

6. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions. (The Analects of Confucius Gongye Chang)

Translation: Smart, fond of learning, and not ashamed to ask for advice from people below.

7. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. (The Analects of Confucius, Yan Yuan)

Translation: Don’t force things on others that you don’t want to do.

8. What you look up to becomes taller, and what you drill into becomes stronger. (The Analects of Confucius Zihan)

Translation: Look up, the more you look, the higher you feel; study hard, the more you study, the more difficult it becomes.

9. Be tireless in learning and teaching. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: Never be satisfied with learning, teach others patiently without getting tired.

10. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries. (The Analects of Confucius, Wei Linggong)

Translation: If people do not consider the future, they will definitely have immediate worries.

11. It’s easy to learn and practice. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: Isn’t it also a pleasure to learn knowledge and review it at a certain time?

12. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. (The Analects of Confucius, Wei Linggong)

Translation: If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first make his tools sharp.

13. Those who have gone by cannot be admonished, but those who have come can still be pursued. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: The past is irreversible, but there is still time to correct the future.

14. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned. (The Analects of Confucius states)

Translation: A gentleman is flat-minded and broad-minded, while a villain is cramped and often sad.

15. When the year is cold, the pines and cypresses will wither. (The Analects of Confucius Zihan)

Translation: Only in the coldest season of the year do we realize that the pines and cypresses are the last to wither.

16. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger. (The Analects of Confucius is government)

Translation: If you only read without thinking, you will be confused. If you only dream without reading, it will be dangerous.

17. The wise do not be confused, the benevolent do not worry, the brave do not fear. (The Analects of Confucius Zihan)

Translation: A wise person will not be confused, a virtuous person will not be sad, and a brave person will not be afraid.

18. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will. (The Analects of Confucius Zihan)

Translation: An army can be deprived of its commander, but a man cannot be deprived of his ambition.

19. Who has no fault? If you can change your past, there is no greater good. (The second year of Zuo Zhuan and Xuangong)

Translation: Who has not made mistakes? Mistakes can be corrected. There is no greater good deed than this.

20. To know something is to know it, and to know something is not to know it, which is knowledge. (The Analects of Confucius is government)

Translation: (The knowledge I teach you) What you know is you know, what you don’t know is you don’t know, this attitude is wise.