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Laozi Quotes about Wisdom

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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Self

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

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

Wisdom, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

Life, Wise, Wisdom

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Self Esteem

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love, Wisdom, Passion

. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

Wisdom, Attitude, Light

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

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Wise, Wisdom, Desire

Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.102, Hackett Publishing

. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

Wisdom, Intelligence

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Wise, Wisdom, Business

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Creating

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

Wise, Wisdom, Breathtaking

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

Wisdom, Spoil, Slips

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Wisdom, People, Water

Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

Beautiful, Wisdom, Fun

The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

Wisdom, People, And Love

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Wisdom, Men, Practice

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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