Source: The Analects of Confucius, Chapter 16, Ji's Chapter

Original text: Confucius said: "Those who are born with knowledge are also in the world; Those who learn and know, second; Learn from difficulties, secondly; If you are sleepy and don't learn, the next one is the people. " The meaning of this sentence is that people who know by nature are the cleverest, the number of people who know by learning is first-class, and those who learn when they encounter difficulties are second-rate. If you don't study when you encounter difficulties, you are an inferiority complex fool.

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The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples. It was compiled by Confucius' disciples and re-disciples and was written in the early Warring States period. The book consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, with quotations as the main part, supplemented by narration, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius' political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles. This book is one of the Confucian classics, and it is also called "Four Books" with Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean and Mencius. Together with The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu, they are called "Four Books and Five Classics".

Although Confucius was born to know people, he did not admit that he was such a person, nor did he see such a person. He said that he didn't know until he studied. He wants people to study hard and not wait for difficulties to study. As the saying goes: if you use books, you hate them less. This is inspiration. As for not studying when encountering difficulties, it is not enough training.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Analects of Confucius

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