Chinese traditional culture quotes and aphorisms

1. If a man wishes his children and grandchildren to be wise, but does not honor his teachers, it is as if he wishes to nourish his body but loses his clothes and food. --(Qing Dynasty) Wang Zhuo, "This World Speaks"

2. If you want to be good, ask the three old men. --Tang Hai, "The Wolf of Zhongshan," third outing.

3. The ancient seed, tuo the germ of life lies within, just needs to be sown in the soil of a new age. --Tagore

4. Mo waits for leisure, white youth head, empty sadness. --Yue Fei, "Man Jiang Hong - Write Wistfulness"

5. There is no excuse for being poor, and there is no pride in being rich. --Zi Gong

6. The one who speaks is not guilty, the one who hears is warned. --Bai Juyi, "The Book with Yuanjiu"

7. Learning stops when there is nothing left to learn. --Xunzi Xuexue (荀子-劝学): Learning is not suspended until the last moment of life.

8. Learning is as valuable as having a teacher and a friend. --Tang Zhen, "The Subterranean Book - Lectures on Learning"

9. When a nation is to rise, it must be valued by its teachers and by its masters.

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10. To read ten thousand volumes of books is to write like a god.

11. To change one's faults, and to improve one's good qualities, is called "cultivating one's body". --Han Yu's "Explanations on the Progress of Learning": Virtue and behavior are accomplished by deep thought and ruined by following the voice of others. 1 The sage has no constant teacher. --Han Yu, "The Teacher's Discourse"

13. Wherever it is found, the foundation of principles is tradition. --America

14. Such nobility and elegance as fall into the commonplace could not be more banal and inferior. --Hugo

15. If a jade is not cut, it will not become a tool; if a man does not learn, he will not know. --If tradition, or "handed down from generation to generation," means anything more than blindly or meticulously following the style of one's predecessors, then tradition is nothing. --Eliot

17. It is unwise to be unaware of one's faults, and unwise to be aware of them, and unwise to be unable to change them. --Li Mi, "The Ninth Treatise on the Book of Changes"