Confucius Quotes

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.