Quotes by Confucius

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds >>

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom. >>

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to p >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. >>

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. >>

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's >>

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

Confucius