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Wisdom Quotes by Laozi
- To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day
- Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
- Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets…
- The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
- The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This…
- When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
- Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
- The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided…
- To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment…
- . . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness,…
- . . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
- For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
- Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
- Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.…
- All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do…
- Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything.…
- Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
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- Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Unknown Author
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle