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Confucius

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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (171 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Confucius, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (142 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

[aphorist] Confucius, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (371 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

[aphorist] Confucius, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (175 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Confucius, in [category] Success and Failure and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (132 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

[aphorist] Confucius, in [category] Work and Recreation

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