Lao Tzu Quotes
Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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I learned life from some good teachers.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.
