Lao Tzu Quotes

The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

Lao Tzu

• Sage
• Pierce
• Offend

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Sacrifice

• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Good
  • Day
  • Joy

• 'I think I've broken three (tha-ree) cameras today!' -Rolling Stone photo shoot

  

  Clay Aiken
  • Today
  • Broken

• What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Work
  • Live
  • Society

• I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Real
  • Business

• Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick.

  

  Christopher Gorham
  • Stop
  • Lifting

• You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

  

  Fred Schneider
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• To be the world No. 1 has always been a dream for me.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • World
  • Dream

• I do think some digital currency will end up being the reserve currency of the world. I see a path where that's going to happen.

  

  Brian Armstrong
  • Up
  • World
  • Path

• I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

  

  Philippe Dauman

• As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.

  

  Brian Cox
  • Home
  • Boy

• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Practice
  • Magic
  • Sage

• Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Experience
  • Social
  • Stranger

• To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Romantic
  • Artists
  • Hide

• The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Attention
  • Merit
  • Sage

• When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Bad
  • Failure
  • Look

• A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosopher
  • Blames
  • Vulgar Man

• In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

  

  William James
  • Black
  • Order
  • White

• I don't think anybody has a choice. Everybody has to kind of interact with all the craziness right now. I don't like to engage - a lot of people made a point of doing the social media thing, and I think that social media is complete trash, so I treat it like that. I like Instagram. I like the funny photos. Other than that, it's not for me.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Funny

• Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Law
  • Hatred
  • Eternal

• Winning is not about headlines and hardware medals. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Today
  • Giving
  • Effort

• Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

  

  William Penn
  • Reason
  • Ignorant
  • Excellent

• The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sage
  • Pierce
  • Offend