Confucius. Our country's great thinker Confucius put forward this sentence: "Those who know are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy." Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), whose surname was Qiu and courtesy name Zhongni, was a native of Zou Yi (now Qufu, Shandong Province) of the state of Lu. His father's name is Shu Liang He, and his mother's name is Yan Zhengzai.