"The most straight seems curved." — Laozi
"The most straight seems curved."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he…
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More Curved Quotes
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
— Carl Sagan
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Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the…
— Aeschylus
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there-…
— Mark Twain
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Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.
— Hideki Yukawa
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me…
— Susane Colasanti
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on…
— Annie Dillard
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging…
— Gregory Benford
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For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a…
— Unknown Author
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Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high…
— Laurence J. Peter
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The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or…
— Ellsworth Kelly
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