According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to accounts in the Zuo Zhuan and Shiji, Confucius departed his homeland in 497 BC after his support to the failed attempt of dismantling the fortified city walls of the powerful Ji, Meng, and Shu families.

According to the Zuo Zhuan, Confucius returned home when he was 68.

According to the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee, he has 2 million known and registered descendants, and there are an estimated 3 million in all.

According to " Doctrine of the Mean ," Confucius also said, " Love of learning is akin to wisdom.

According to Martin Woesler trends were ' cult literature ' with Guo Jingming ( 郭敬明 ), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river, vagabond literature with Xu Zechen ( 徐则臣 ), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick, Liu Zhenyun ( 刘震云 ), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets, underground literature Mian Mian ( 棉棉 ), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex, ' longing for something ' literature, divided in historicizing literature with Yu Dan 于丹, 《 论语 》 心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian ( 易中天 ) and in Tibetan literature with Alai, literature of the mega cities, women's literature with Bi Shumin ( 毕淑敏 ), 女儿拳 Women ’ s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist, master narratives by narrators like Mo Yan 莫言 with 生死疲勞 Life and Death are Wearing me out.

According to tradition, Confucius ( 551 BCE – 479 BCE ) was the final editor of the collection in its present form, although the individual poems would accordingly all be more-or-less older than this.

According to Confucius, a person with a well-cultivated sense of ren would: speak carefully and modestly ( Analects 12. 3 ); be resolute and firm ( Analects 12. 20 ); be courageous ( Analects 14. 4 ); be free from worry, unhappiness, and insecurity ( Analects 9. 28 ; 6. 21 ); moderate their desires and return to propriety ( Analects 12. 1 ); be respectful, tolerant, diligent, trustworthy, and kind ( Analects 17. 6 ); and, would love others ( Analects 12. 22 ).

According to teachings of Agni Yoga, Serapis Bey purports to be, in past lives, the Roman king Numa Pompilius, and the philosophers Confucius, Plato and Seneca the Younger ( Lucius Annaeus Seneca ).

According to the Classic of Filial Piety, Confucius once said: " In serving his parents, a filial son reveres them in daily life ; he makes them happy while he nourishes them ; he takes anxious care of them in sickness ; he shows great sorrow over their death ; and he sacrifices to them with solemnity.

According to Sima Qian, Confucius said: " The disciples who received my instructions, and could themselves comprehend them, were seventy-seven individuals.

According to Sima Qian, he was fifteen years younger than Confucius, but fifty years younger, according to the ' Narratives of the School ,' which latter authority is followed in ' The Annals of the Empire.

According to the ' Narratives of the School ,' he was the same as Yan Ke ( 刻, or 剋 ), who drove the carriage when Confucius rode in Wei after the duke and Nan-zi.

According to Peng Ming-min, a Taiwan independence activist and politician, colleges and universities where a Confucius Institute is established have to sign a contract in which they declare their support for Beijing ’ s “ one China ” policy.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, many myths feature sacred mountains as " the sites of revelations ": " In myth, the ascent of the holy mountain is a spiritual journey, promising purification, insight, wisdom, or knowledge of the sacred ".

According to Feldman, Josephus also attaches particular significance to Moses ' possession of the " cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice.

According to the lineage texts on prayer wheels, prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit ( good karma ) and to purify negativities ( bad karma ).

According to the Rabbinical literature, on account of his modest request for wisdom only, Solomon was rewarded with riches and an unprecedentedly glorious realm, which extended over the upper world inhabited by the angels and over the whole of the terrestrial globe with all its inhabitants, including all the beasts, fowl, and reptiles, as well as the demons and spirits.

According to Mahayana sutras, the Buddha always maintained that lay persons were capable of great wisdom in the Buddhadharma and of reaching enlightenment.

According to the Gemara, they demonstrated their wisdom by raising their case in a timely fashion, just as Moses was expounding the law of levirate marriage, or yibbum, and they argued for their inheritance by analogy to that law.

According to Celtic belief wisdom increases with age and dark skinned supernatural beings are often powerful.

According to a meta-analysis and contrary to conventional wisdom, the pooled response rate in the placebo group was 19. 6 %, even lower than in some other medical conditions.

According to William, Fulk was " a ruddy man, like David ... faithful and gentle, affable and kind ... an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs.

According to Shneur Zalman's seminal work Tanya, the intellect consists of three interconnected processes: Chochma ( wisdom ), Bina ( understanding ), and Da ' at ( knowledge ).

According to Sir Walter Scott: ' Possession of supernatural wisdom is still imputed by the natives of Orkney and Zetland Islands, to the people called Drows, who may, in most other respects, be identified with the Caledonian fairies.

According to Jewish legend, Solomon used his wisdom to design a throne with mechanical animals which hailed him as king when he ascended it ; upon sitting down an eagle would place a crown upon his head, and a dove would bring him a Torah scroll.

According to I Kuan Tao, he represents many teachings, including contentment, generosity, wisdom and open kindheartedness.

" According to David Winston, because wisdom is God's " creative agent ," she must be intimately identified with God.

According to the supreme wisdom lessons, Fard taught that whites were devils because of a culture of lies and murder that the black man Yakub instituted on the island of Patmos or Pelan to ensure the creation of his new people.

According to the supreme wisdom lessons by

According to the Hebrew Bible, the unnamed queen of the land of Sheba heard of the great wisdom of King Solomon of Israel and journeyed there with gifts of spices, gold, precious stones and beautiful wood and to test him with questions, as recorded in First Kings ( largely copied in 2 Chronicles ).

According to Stockmann, there are no absolute principles of either wisdom or morality.

According to John Meyendorff, " Gregory Palamas orients his entire polemic against Barlaam the Calabrian on the issue of the Hellenic wisdom which he considers to be the main source of Barlaam ’ s errors.

According to Irenæus, Cerinthus, a man educated in the wisdom of the Egyptians, claimed angelic inspiration.

According to presidential spokesman Alain-George Ngatoua, this was because the constitution adopted in December 2004 did not provide for a Vice-President, and the dismissal was unrelated to the quality of Goumba's work ; Ngatoua said that Bozizé thanked Goumba for facilitating the transitional process through his " wisdom and courage ".

* According to the Mishnah, Torah wisdom is acquired via 48 ways ( Pirkei Avoth 6: 6 )

According to legend, Christian Rosenkreuz was a doctor who discovered and learned esoteric wisdom on a pilgrimage to the Middle East among Turkish, Arab, and Persian sages, possibly Sufi or Zoroastrian masters, supposedly in the early 15th century ( see section below on Symbolism ); returned and founded the " Fraternity of the Rose Cross " with himself ( Frater C. R. C.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to a World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

According to Lucas, Bayley, and Valli, each sign has a handshape ( see handshape section in American Sign Language grammar ) and these handshapes can resemble signs of numbers or letters.

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

According to the special theory of relativity, the aberration looks as a transform of the celestial sphere due to different frames of reference and is virtually a special case of velocity addition, namely one of the light beam and frames ' relative velocity v. The formula from relativistic aberration can be simplified to

According to the Wise Man, the only way Ash can return to his time is to retrieve the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.

According to the WWF, the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina can be subdivided into three ecoregions: the Pannonian mixed forests, Dinaric Mountains mixed forests and Illyrian deciduous forests.

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to this understanding, the self can not be reduced to a bundle because there is nothing that answers to the concept of a self.

According to the Kun-bzang bla-ma ' i zhal-lung, a bodhisattva can choose any of three paths to help sentient beings in the process of achieving buddhahood.

According to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), benzodiazepines can be used in the immediate management of GAD, if necessary.

According to the objectivist view, the rules of Bayesian statistics can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency and interpreted as an extension of logic.

According to the DSM-IV, the " With catatonic features " specifier can be applied if the clinical picture is dominated by at least two of the following:

According to the INBio, about 4. 5 % of the world's biodiversity can be found in Costa Rica.

According to some versions of functionalism, even non-human systems, such as other animal species, alien life forms, or advanced computers can, in principle, have mental states.

According to this research, genetic markers commonly found in modern humans worldwide suggest that today many people carry a gene that evolved as protection against the brain diseases that can be spread by consuming human brain tissue.

According to the myth, cattle are slow-moving, slow-witted and weak-legged, and can easily be pushed over without much force, both because they have a high center of gravity, and because they sleep standing.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

The date of the introduction of crossbows, however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to some ancient Greek collections, canons 29 and 30 are attributed to the council: canon 29, which states that an unworthy bishop cannot be demoted but can be removed, is an extract from the minutes of the 19th session ; canon 30, which grants the Egyptians time to consider their rejection of Leo's Tome, is an extract from the minutes of the fourth session.

The introduction of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.