Tag: mistakes
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Confucius Analects – Handling Mistakes – 孔子论语 – 如何面对和改正错误
15.11 Learn from mistakes 子曰、過而不改、是謂過矣。 The Master said, ‘To have faults and not to reform them,– this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults.’ 19.4 Superior man commits mistakes, he learns and changes through them 子貢曰、君子之過也、如日月之食焉、過也、人皆見之、更也、 人皆仰之。 Zigongsaid, ‘The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his…
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Confucius Analects – attitudes and conducts of a learnt person, handling mistakes – 孔子论语 – 過則勿憚改
子曰、君子不重、則不威、學則不固。主忠信。無友不如己者。過則勿憚改。 The Master said, ‘If the scholar be not prudent, he will not build authority, and his learning will not be solid. Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Treat friends as if they are yourself. When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.’ -> A learnt man is prudent, treat every speech…