The Path of a Noble Person: Extensive Learning Restrained by Propriety

By / / education, learning, propriety, self-cultivation, The Analects, the noble person, Yan Yuan XII, Yan Yuan XII Chapter 15
Confucius said: “Extensive learning constrained by ritual propriety keeps one from going astray.”

By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.

君子博学于文，约之以礼，亦可以弗畔矣夫！

Source: The Analects, Yan Yuan XII, Chapter 15

Author: Confucius

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