<p>"he who is in a rush shall walk slowly” was translation of a Japanese proberbs,  and many of them came from Chinese literatures </p>

<p>The idiom <a href="https://ctext.org/analects/zi-lu/zh?searchu=%E6%AC%B2%E9%80%9F%EF%BC%8C%E5%89%87%E4%B8%8D%E9%81%94%EF%BC%9B%E8%A6%8B%E5%B0%8F%E5%88%A9%EF%BC%8C%E5%89%87%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%8B%E4%B8%8D%E6%88%90%E3%80%82" rel="nofollow noreferrer">欲速則不達</a> (If you rush you are more likely not getting there)  came from 論語 and the writer was 子路. </p>

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Tang Ho
<p>A while back I read the saying "he who is in a rush shall walk slowly". I have seen it be attributed to Confucius (<a href="https://www.wer-weiss-was.de/t/redewendung-wer-es-eilig-hat-soll-langsam-gehen/8457422" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wer-weiss-was.de/t/redewendung-wer-es-eilig-hat-soll-langsam-gehen/8457422</a> <a href="https://www.quotez.net/german/konfuzius.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.quotez.net/german/konfuzius.htm</a>) sometimes, but never in any academic reference.</p>

<p>Who is the author of the sentence and where was it written down first?</p>

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I don't know such a quote in the Analects. But interestingly I googled the sentence and found it of Japanese origin.
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Who said "he who is in a rush shall walk slowly"?
# Who said "he who is in a rush shall walk slowly"?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-15)

A while back I read the saying "he who is in a rush shall walk slowly". I have seen it be attributed to Confucius (<https://www.wer-weiss-was.de/t/redewendung-wer-es-eilig-hat-soll-langsam-gehen/8457422> <https://www.quotez.net/german/konfuzius.htm>) sometimes, but never in any academic reference.

Who is the author of the sentence and where was it written down first?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I don't know such a quote in the Analects. But interestingly I googled the sentence and found it of Japanese origin.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-09-15. Score: 2

"he who is in a rush shall walk slowly” was translation of a Japanese proberbs, and many of them came from Chinese literatures

The idiom [欲速則不達](https://ctext.org/analects/zi-lu/zh?searchu=%E6%AC%B2%E9%80%9F%EF%BC%8C%E5%89%87%E4%B8%8D%E9%81%94%EF%BC%9B%E8%A6%8B%E5%B0%8F%E5%88%A9%EF%BC%8C%E5%89%87%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%8B%E4%B8%8D%E6%88%90%E3%80%82) (If you rush you are more likely not getting there) came from 論語 and the writer was 子路.


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