The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
MENCIUSThe myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
More Mencius Quotes
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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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.
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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.
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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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