Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

學而不思則罔、思而不學則殆

Confucius

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Confucius

Born c. 551 BCE in Lu, Confucius built a moral system on ren, li, and xiao. The Analects became East Asia's intellectual bedrock, shaping ethics across the civilization sphere for twenty-five centuries.

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