Confucius

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

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions."

"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven."

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."

"Heaven means to be one with God."

"If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things."

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."

"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours."

"When you are labouring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."

"Have no friends not equal to yourself." - Analects

"To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage." - Analects

"It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change." - Analects

"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them." - Analects