Luna Zhou

Luna Zhou is the founder and editor of SagesQuote. She started the site after years of reading classical Chinese texts and noticing how many famous lines had drifted away from the books they actually came from.

She checks every attribution against the original Chinese, pre-1930 English translations and reliable archives, and is working back through the catalogue to correct the ones that don't hold up. Corrections are welcomed and credited.

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Confucius Quotes on Learning: What the Analects Actually Says

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Confucius quotes on learning come almost entirely from the Analects (論語, Lunyu), the sayings his students compiled after his death

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