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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."

"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

"Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."
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"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"

"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies."

"The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them."

"The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment."

"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?"

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."
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