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Knowing Quotes by Laozi
- Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
- All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find…
- Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. .…
- Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
- Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
- Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
- Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
- Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.
- Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
- Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.
- The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao, all…
- . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable…
- Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
- Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
- Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
- Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is…
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- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
- Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. — Burt Bacharach
- The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard