Quote of the Month
学而时习之，不亦说乎？
Xué ér shí xí zhī，Bù yì yuè hū
To learn and put into practice what one has learned at the appropriate time, is this not a source of pleasure?
Leren en op het juiste moment toepassen wat men heeft geleerd, is dat geen bron van vreugde?
This is a famous sentence from the Analects of Confucius (Lunyu 《论语》, first chapter Xue Er 学而).
Translation: “To learn and put into practice what one has learned at the appropriate time — is this not a source of pleasure?”
A small note: in this sentence, the character 说 is pronounced yuè and means “joy” or “pleasure,” not shuō (“to say”). This is an ancient usage of the character, corresponding to the modern character 悦 (yuè).
