Lao Tzu Quotes

“the further one travels the less one knows.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:knowledge travel

“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:knowledge speech

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:self strength power wisdom intelligence

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:self respect

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:self fear hope

“Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:self

“My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know...”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:heart understanding teaching

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:beauty

“True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:wisdom words

“What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:good learning teaching

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