Chinese wisdom
Chinese wisdom
A person with great knowledge, is equally looking at distant and close, does not consider small null and void, and the great – great, because he knows that the relative sizes of things. He argues, stating that the present and the past is the same thing, and therefore doesn’t long for the distant past, and does not try to grab a close now. Because he knows that the time never stops. He explores the fullness and emptiness, and therefore finding, does not rejoice, losing is not sad, because he knows that fate is not constant. He clearly understands the way, and therefore does not rejoice in the birth of his misfortune, and does not consider his death, because he knows that the end and the beginning of alternate.
Chinese wisdom
Today’s scholars study to impress others.”
Confucius
If you don’t know, then realize that you don’t know:
That is knowledge.
Confucius
True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one’s knowledge.
than to live and be silent.
– Fan Zhongyan, 988-1052
– Story by Han Fei Zi
Book of Odes
“In learning and straightway practising is there not pleasure also?
When friends gather round from afar do we not rejoice?
Whom lack of fame cannot vex is not he a gentleman?”
-Chap.1, LunYu
Confucius
Think without learning is dangerous.
Confucius – Lun Yu Chap. 2
![Without going outside, you may know the whole world! -Chap. 47, DaoDeJing Lao Zi [Lao Tze]](http://viola.bz/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Without-going-outside-you-may-know-the-whole-world.gif)
-Chap. 47, DaoDeJing
Lao Zi [Lao Tze]
Confucius Lunyu 6-22
Teach a man to fish; he learns a skill for life.
What you do not wish upon yourself,
extend not to others.
