black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

Mencius

He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
MENCIUS

Love Reaction Respect Treat
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
MENCIUS

Advice People Talk
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
MENCIUS

Deep Desire People Philosophy
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
MENCIUS

Difficult Evil Men Seek
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
MENCIUS

Believe Book
Human nature is disposed to do good.
MENCIUS

Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
MENCIUS

Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
MENCIUS

Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
MENCIUS

Animal Humanity People Water Wild
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
MENCIUS

Heaven Sincere
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
MENCIUS

Hands Respect World
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
MENCIUS

Avoid Danger Death Myself
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
MENCIUS

Ability Change Sincere
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
MENCIUS

Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
MENCIUS

Freedom Men Pet
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
MENCIUS

Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Mencius Quotes