曾子曰，以能问于不能，以多问于寡，有若无，实若虚，犯而不校，昔者吾友，尝从事于斯矣。
Modern Chinese Guide
曾子说：自己有才能却向没有才能的人请教，自己知识多却向知识少的人请教；有学问却像没有学问一样，满腹才识却像空虚一样；即使被人冒犯也不计较。从前我的一位朋友，就曾经这样做了。
James Legge Translation
The philosopher Tsang said, "Gifted with ability, and yet putting questions to those who were not so; possessed of much, and yet putting questions to those possessed of little; having, as though he had not; full, and yet counting himself as empty; offended against, and yet entering into no altercation; formerly I had a friend who pursued this style of conduct."
Source: James Legge, public domain, 1893.
Notes
- 底本：Wikisource 整理的 James Legge《The Chinese Classics》公版中英文本（1893–1895）。
- 简体化：原文由繁体转为简体（OpenCC），与公版英译逐句对应。
- 白话参考底本：《白话论语读本》，张兆瑢、沈元起编译，上海广益书局1948 年新三版。