Famous Quotes / Mencius
38 Quotations by Mencius
- 21. People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
- 22. People for the most part err, and are afterwards able to reform. They are distressed in mind and per ...
- 23. Sincerity is the way of Heaven.
- 24. The basis of accomplishment is in never quitting.
- 25. The basis of accomplishment is in never quitting.
- 26. The business of the people must not be neglected... The way of the people is this: If they have a ce ...
- 27. The desire to be honored is common in the minds of all people. And all people have within themselves ...
- 28. The evil of people can come from their like of being teachers of others.
- 29. The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. The superior person is committed ...
- 30. The superior person uses learning as a means of self-improvement. The lesser person uses learning as ...
- 31. The superior person will prudently pick the community he will live within, and will choose the prope ...
- 32. The superior person's learning goes in his ear, attaches to his heart, expands to the end of his lim ...
- 33. The tendency of human nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. All people hav ...
- 34. The wise embrace all knowledge, but they are most earnest about what is of the greatest importance. ...
- 35. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
- 36. To nourish the mind, there is nothing better than to make the desires few. For the person whose desi ...
- 37. When people are allowed to follow their natural selves, they inherently do good -- and that is why I ...
- 38. Wisdom is treating right as right, and wrong as wrong. Foolishness is treating right as wrong, and w ...