Great words and questions.

 Great words and questions.




Good words also lead to good questions.




Confucius is said to have always asked questions when he went to the shrines of the old monarchs and attended the ceremonies, even though he was a sacrificial expert. It is not a question of ignorance, but a process of properly understanding the other person's thoughts and obtaining an agreement with them.


Also, the act of acknowledging that I could be wrong and constantly obeying the principle of etiquette is 'asking in everything'.


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However, intellectuals in our society are stingy with questions.


From the moment you ask someone, you see that you have to admit your intellectual inferiority.


And when I'm asked about it, I'm worried about how to get him to agree with me.


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Human beings are beings who gain opportunities through efforts to change and improve.


Good words and questions are the most essential and powerful means for self-innovation.


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In the political arena, there are parties that are criticized more for their vulgar language even though other parties have other problems. It's because I haven't thought about the right words and questions for the right time and place.


The root cause is the shallow idea of ​​trying to get attention somehow, good or bad.


It destroys oneself and those around them through words.


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The disciples of Confucius say:


“He was the one who did it even though he knew it wasn’t going to go well.”


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Confucius would have been able to do so because he believed that good words and politeness would change society someday, even if not immediately. Hundreds of years later, during the Han Dynasty, the teachings of Confucius became the ideology of the regime. Thanks to that, even now we live savoring the words of Confucius.

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