Mencius Mind Quotations

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.