“I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself.”

—  Confucius

§ 7
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter VII
Context: I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.

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