CONFUCIUS

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top."

"People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous."

"To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

"Roads were made for journeys not destinations"

"The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not. Are both correct."

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

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

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."

"If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children."

"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one."

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."

"He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection."

"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things."

"If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake."

"Time flows away like the water in the river."

"When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger."

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."