6.20The Master said, “To prefer it is better than only to know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.”
6.12 Ran Qiu said,”It is not that your Way does not commend itself to me, but that it demands powers I do not possess.”
5.28 The Master said, “In a hamlet of ten houses you may be sure of finding someone quite as loyal and true to his word as I. But I doubt if you would find anyone with such a love of learning.”
5.9 The Master in discussing Zigong said to him, “Which do you yourself think is the better, you or Hui?”
3.16 The Master said, “The saying In archery it is not the hide that counts,For some men have more strength than others, is the way of the Ancients.”
The Master said, “He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”