"Brian Whatcott" wrote ...
"Doug Dotson" wrote:

When faced with questions like this, it is best to follow the advice
of confucious:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's
mouth and remove all doubts.

I believe that this quote came from Samuel Johnson.

But as Confucious actually said:
" To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true
knowledge."



K'ung-fu-tzu or Kongfuzi is usually rendered in English as Confucius

And in modern standard Chinese he's known as Kongzi. The appellation
'Kongfuzi' seems to have only been recorded once in Chinese. Some have
suggested it may have been a creation of Jesuit scholars.

Cheers

Bil