Confucius: Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is

Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their begi — Confucius

Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

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學而時習之、不亦說乎。有朋自遠方來、不亦樂乎。人不知而不慍、不亦君子乎。 — Confucius
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest tha — Confucius
Virtuous, worthy, wise and capable people are chosen as leaders. — Confucius
Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order — Confucius
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost somethi — George Bernard Shaw
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the — Miguel de Cervantes
The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind. — Mencius
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. — Henry David Thoreau
Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, — Fernando Pessoa
Etre pauvre à Paris, c'est être pauvre deux fois. — Émile Zola
Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air. — Leonardo da Vinci
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of — Henri Bergson