Lao Tzu Quotes

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

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• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Man
  • Health
  • Sickness

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Knowing

• I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Love
  • Knowing
  • Supporting

• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Turning Point

• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Like
  • More
  • Knowing

• And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Sickness
  • Bright

• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Person
  • Knowing
  • Patriot

• Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Knowing
  • Looking
  • Youth

• Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Day
  • Year
  • Knowing

• Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

  

  May Sinclair
  • Reality
  • Lose
  • Knowing

• Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Place
  • Company
  • Sickness

• We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Together
  • Words

• If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

  

  Eamon Duffy
  • History
  • Failure
  • Knowing

• I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Words
  • Water
  • Mean

• There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Knowing

• We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Morality

• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Important
  • Country
  • Black

• My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

  

  Sherri Shepherd
  • Grandmother
  • Accomplishments
  • Comedy

• Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowing
  • Sickness
  • Humality