不以人废言
Traditional form:
不以人廢言
Pinyin (reading):
bùyǐrénfèiyán
Definitions:
- not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
Characters:
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 以 - according to; so as to; because of; then
- 人 - man, person; people
- 废 - to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate
- 言 - words, speech; to speak, to say
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