Lao Tzu Quotes

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

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• I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Soul
  • Myself

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Man
  • For Her
  • Give

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Bring

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Respect
  • More
  • Give

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Childhood

• Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Crazy
  • Media
  • Lights

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the mound of 'I' to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Important
  • Tears

• If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Wisdom
  • Burning
  • Holy Places

• In such green palaces the first kings reign'd,Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd;With such old counsellors they did advise,And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Wise
  • Green

• The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wise
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