Three quotations from Confucius

Three quotations from Confucius April 21, 2016

 

We’re headed to Asia in a couple of days, but not to the right part of it for this kind of thing.  So my wife and I very much enjoyed a meal tonight at Chef Gao, in north Orem.  And that put me in the mood:

 

a portrait of Confucius, not contemporary
Confucius, in an 8th century AD (Tang Dynasty) portrait by Wu Daozi (Wikimedia Commons)

 

 

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

 

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

 

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I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember.  I do and I understand.

 

Kǒng Fūzǐ (Confucius, d. BC 499)


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