Lao Tzu Quotes

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Kind
  • Young

• I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • America
  • Clever
  • Alcohol

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Clever

• I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Professional

• My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Very

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Girl
  • Clever

• I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Night
  • Earth

• What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Perfect
  • Fool
  • Clever

• Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Military
  • Clever

• The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • History
  • Clever

• I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

  

  James Cosmo
  • Clever

• I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • People
  • Game
  • Clever

• Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Intelligent
  • Clever

• Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Clever

• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Optimist

• In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • Writer
  • Series
  • Episodes

• He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

  

  Lao Tzu
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