Study the past, if you would divine the future. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: future past prediction the future the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Confucius Confucius ( kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. from Wikipedia You may find more from Confucius on Wikiquote
More quotations from Confucius The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: success Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: security Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Respect yourself and others will respect you. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death? —Confucius More about this quote Tags: service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: mistakes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: success Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: security Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Respect yourself and others will respect you. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death? —Confucius More about this quote Tags: service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: mistakes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “the past” Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. —William Ralph Inge More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. —Sir William Osler More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. —William Ralph Inge More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. —Sir William Osler More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email