Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

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.

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.