 From the man bringing his bundle of dried flesh for my teaching upwards, I have never refused instruction to anyone." VIII. The Master said, "I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to...  The National Quarterly Review - Page 3331874Full view - About this book
 | George Thomas Bettany - Confucianism - 1891 - 298 pages
...pupils. " I do not open the truth," he said, " to one who is not eager after knowledge, nor do I help any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject, and the listener cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson." Like many another... | |
 | Adele Marion Fielde - China - 1894 - 354 pages
...desire for improvement, and some degree of capacity. He said: "I do not open up the truth to any who are not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not himself anxious to explain. When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot,... | |
 | John Fryer - Religion - 1900 - 160 pages
...students rather than those who could pay high fees. Ho said: — " I do not open up the truth to any one who is not " eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious " to find an explanation himself. When I have presented one corner of " a subject to any one and he cannot... | |
 | Robert Ellsworth Lewis - Education - 1903 - 306 pages
...teaches privately, and to whom he entrusts the genius of truth. But Confucius was a severer master; " I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager...any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When l have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - Literary Criticism - 1905 - 444 pages
...to do. " I do not open the truth," he said, " to one who is not eager after knowledge, nor do I help any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject, and the listener cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson." When twenty-eight... | |
 | Religion and science - 1905 - 382 pages
...I do not open the truth," he said, " to one who is not eager after knowledge, nor do I help anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject, and the listener cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson." At twenty-eight... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 462 pages
...flesh for my teaching upwards, I have never refused instruction to anyone." VIII. The Master said, "I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone,... | |
 | James Legge - Confucianism - 1909 - 356 pages
...education; but we need not suppose that Confucius had them all in view here. VIII. The Master said, " I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knmvledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner... | |
 | Confucius - Confucian ethics - 1915 - 356 pages
...talking about the Odes. I told him one point and he knew its proper sequence." (Bk. vii., c. viii.) "I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager for knowledge, nor help out any one who is not himself anxious to explore causes. When I have presented... | |
 | Sydney Cave - Religion - 1921 - 264 pages
...teacher. He would give his instruction to pupils who could only pay him small fees, but he said, " I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge nor help anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone... | |
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