Always Try, Always Believe

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."

-Anatole France

When I began to read Book 7 of Confucius, I thought about on how some people are always willing and wanting to learn and always trying to achieve what they want. But I also thought on those people who are very closed minded and they say they want to learn but they don't really try. There's two kind of people in the world, there are the those who are always seeking for more knowledge and are always willing to learn in order to achieve something. And there are those who just want to know for knowing without a reason. The difference between these people is that the first ones before learning, they are willing and already trying to learn. And the second ones, don't really want to learn, they are the people who don't even try.
There was a quote in Confucius which led me thinking of this:
"I will not open the door for a mind that is not already striving to understand, nor will I provide words to a tongue that is not already struggling to speak. If I hold up one corner of a problem, and the student cannot come back to me with the other three, I will not attempt to instruct him again." (Book 7, pg. 20). What this says is that in order to learn, you need to want to learn. You need to be willing to do the thing you want to do in order to achieve it. Because in order to achieve something you have to always want it and always try. You can't never stop trying or stop believeing in something because then, you won't be able to accomplish your goal.