wisdom

The Wise Integrity: “Presume No Evil, Yet Foresee It—That Is True Worth”

The Ideal Complete Man: A Synthesis of Wisdom, Courage, Talent, and Culture

The Essence of Wisdom: “To Know All Men”

The Test of True Discernment: When Slander, Subtle or Startling, Finds No Hold

Two Kinds of Excellence: The Fullness of Virtue, the Acumen of Trade

The Hall and the Inner Chamber: A Metaphor for Stages of Learning

The Pheasant, the Sage, and the Disciple: A Final Lesson on Seizing the Moment

The Liberated Mind: How Wisdom, Virtue, and Courage Free Us from Doubt, Worry, and Fear

A Peculiar Fortune: To Have One’s Errors Recognized

The Foundation of Knowledge: Against Hasty Action, For Learning from Observation

The Mobile Classroom: Finding a Teacher in Every Group of Three

A Lament for More Time: Confucius’s Wish to Study the Book of Changes

Chinese Idiom: 哀莫大于心死 (There is no grief so great as despair)

The Attainment of the Goal: Why Seekers of Virtue Have No Regret

The Prudent Warrior: Confucius on the Man Who Plans and Achieves