Laozi Quotes about Truth

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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Laozi

Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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.

Laozi

Truth, Doubt, Way

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

Laozi

Strength, Truth, Heart

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

Laozi

Truth, Past, Ideas

By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

Laozi

Time, Truth, Simple

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”