The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.

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

Heaven means to be one with God.

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.