Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind: Confucius talks about modesty, which is often found in The Analects. His disciple Luz is outspoken, too reckless and often not modest enough. Confucius often criticized or taught him a lesson. On one occasion, Luz, Ceng Zhe, You Ran and Gong Xihua sat with Confucius. Confucius said, "You always say,' Nobody knows me!'" "If someone knows you, what are you going to do? Lutz quickly replied: "A country with 1000 personnel carriers was sandwiched between big countries and invaded by foreign troops, even catching up with the famine year. If I am in power, it will only take me three years to make everyone brave and good at fighting, and I will know how to be a man. Confucius used "Zhi Yi" (a slight smile) to express his criticism. Confucius said: "To govern a country, we should be polite, but Lutz's words are not modest at all.". How can we govern the country well? "On another occasion, Confucius took several students to the temple to offer sacrifices. As soon as he entered the temple gate, he saw an eye-catching (gas) vessel on the seat, which is said to be a sacrificial vessel for holding wine. The students felt novel and asked questions one after another. Confucius didn't answer, but asked the people in the temple, "What kind of instrument is this?" Seeing this man's modesty and courtesy, the abbot respectfully said, "Master, this is an instrument placed on the right side of the seat!" " "So Confucius looked at the vessel carefully, repeating" sit upright "and" sit upright "in his mouth, and then said to the students," The vessel placed on the right side of the seat is tilted when it is empty, and it becomes straight when it is half filled with water, but it is filled with water. " It will subvert. "After listening to the teacher, the students looked at him with amazing eyes, and then at this novel instrument. Confucius saw everyone's thoughts and asked them kindly, "Do you have some disbelief?"? "? Let's try the water in the jar! "As he spoke, the students called for water. When half the water is poured into the container, the container is straight. Confucius immediately said to them, "Look, isn't this right?" Everyone nodded. He asked the students to continue pouring water into the vessel, which fell down as soon as it was full. Confucius quickly told them: "Dumping is because the water is full!" " Lutz, outspoken, took the lead in asking, "Is there no way to stop it from falling?" Confucius took a deep look at everyone and said earnestly, "All the cleverest people in the world should be cautious (act cautiously and steadily) to stay smart." Those who have made great contributions to the world should keep their contributions modestly; A brave and incomparable person should carefully maintain his skills ... that is, he should make concessions to reduce complacency. "The students were deeply moved by this profound sentence. Socrates, a famous philosopher in ancient Greece, not only wrote brilliant works, but also recruited students to fall behind and enlightened the wisdom of young people with famous enlightenment dialogues. Whenever people admire his profound knowledge and extraordinary wisdom, he always modestly says, "The only thing I know is my own ignorance. "Newton, known as the' father of mechanics', discovered the law of gravity. In heat, he determined the law of cooling. In mathematics, he put forward the "flow number method", established binomial theorem and Leibniz founded calculus almost at the same time, which opened a new era of mathematics. He is a great scientist who has made many achievements, yet he is very modest. Regarding his success, he said modestly, "If I see farther than Descartes, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." He also said to people: "I am like a child playing on the beach." Sometimes I am glad to find a smooth and beautiful stone, but the sea of truth has not been discovered. Beethoven, a world-famous music master, said modestly that he "learned only a few notes". The great scientist Einstein said that he was "as naive as a child". Andre, a French chemist, made great achievements in chemistry when he was a Muji man. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society, Owens College set up a new professor position in organic chemistry for him, and Glass University elected him as an honorary doctor. These honors didn't change his modesty at all. After Xiao died, Engels called him "the most modest man in the world" in his eulogy.