Quote

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Laozi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laozi
Archivist
Philosopher
Writer
Lao-tze
Lao Tzu
Lao-tzu
Lao-tsu
Li Er
Laotze
Taoism
Knowledge
Speak

More quotes by Laozi

Image
He who is able to conquer others is powerful he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.
Laozi
Image
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Laozi
Image
Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
Laozi
Image
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
Laozi
Image
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
Laozi
Image
Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.
Laozi
Image
Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
Laozi
Image
People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
Laozi
Image
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
Laozi
Image
Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. [Doing nothing is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]
Laozi
Image
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
Laozi
Image
If you never assume importance, you never lose it.
Laozi
Image
Clay is fashioned into vessels it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.
Laozi
Image
Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.
Laozi
Image
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
Laozi
Image
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.
Laozi
Image
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.
Laozi
Image
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
Laozi
Image
That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.
Laozi
Image
Life is going forth death is returning home.
Laozi