A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.

Quote by Chinese Proverbs

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Sorrow is the child of too much joy

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

A book holds a house of gold

A book holds a house of gold

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases

For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten

For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten

Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished

Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished

The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame

The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame

When you drink from the stream remember the spring.

When you drink from the stream remember the spring.

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of...

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of...

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep

The saving man becomes the free man.

The saving man becomes the free man.

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study...

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study...

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in...

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in...

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on...

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on...

Politeness wins the confidence of princes

Politeness wins the confidence of princes

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll...

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll...

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what...

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what...

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live...

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live...

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

There is no hospitality like understanding.

There is no hospitality like understanding.