Confucian Scholar

Famous quotes containing the words confucian and/or scholar:

“Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It’s in having taken an ethos ... where you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“When a scholar meets a soldier, he may have reason on his side, but to no avail.”
—Chinese proverb.