Unpretentious Quote by Laozi

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned…

— Arundhati Roy

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse…

— Plutarch

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to…

— Jenny Han

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight…

— Dante Alighieri

“If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook,…

— Lemony Snicket

“They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the…

— Stewart O'Nan

“I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.”

— Neil Gaiman

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

— Jana Novotna

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

— Laozi

Simple, like uncarved wood.

— Laozi

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

— Confucius

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence