"Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by……" — Laozi
"Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential…
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your…
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Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
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