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Confucious quotes on knowledge

These Confucious quotes seem to reflect an underlying theme of pinning knowledge down.


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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

Confucious on Knowledge


I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Confucious on Knowledge


Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge

Confucious on Knowledge


When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

Confucious on Knowledge


The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

Confucious on Knowledge


The whole end of speech is to be understood.

Confucious on Knowledge


Without a knowledge of words there is no understanding men.

Confucious on Knowledge


Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucious on Knowledge


We must first set our hearts right.

Confucious on Knowledge


Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucious on Knowledge


To take untaught men into battle is to cast them away.

Confucious on Knowledge


When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge

Confucious on Knowledge


We hope you enjoyed these Confucious quotes and that they helped you ponder on the meaning of knowledge in Tai Chi. Was Confucious a Tai Chi player?

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