Lao Tzu Quotes
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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}
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For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.
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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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The one who rules like the mother lasts long.
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When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.
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The longer you travel, the less you know.
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Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.
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There is no greater disaster than discontent.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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The progress of the Way seems retreating.
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A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.
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Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.
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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
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Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
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When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.
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The highest tone is hard to hear.
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If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
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Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.
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Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.