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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Right and Rightness
Confucius

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

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

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Coward and Cowardice
Confucius

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

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Happiness
Confucius

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What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
Superiority
Confucius

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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
Example
Confucius

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Anger
Confucius

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
Scholars and Scholarship
Confucius

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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Faults
Confucius

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Wisdom
Confucius

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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Respectability
Confucius

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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Words
Confucius

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Marriage
William Congreve

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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
Conversation
William Congreve

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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Love
William Congreve

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Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Music
William Congreve

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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
Gossip
William Congreve

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
Joy
William Congreve

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Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Dreams
Robert Conklin

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I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.
Want
Robert Conklin

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It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.
Attitude
Robert Conklin

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People want riches; they need fulfillment.
Fulfillment
Robert Conklin

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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Greed
Cyril Connolly

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun