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Tao Of Pooh Quotes

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

Benjamin Hoff
Animal, Needs, Tao Of Pooh

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

Benjamin Hoff
Trying, Way, Tao Of Pooh
"The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

Benjamin Hoff
Sweet, Tao Of Pooh, New Home

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

Benjamin Hoff
Simple, Simplicity, Tao Of Pooh

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

Benjamin Hoff
Justice, Clue, Tao Of Pooh

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

A. A. Milne
Bird, Tao Of Pooh
'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926) ch. 6

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

Benjamin Hoff
Wise, Tao Of Pooh, Foolish

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A. A. Milne
Way, Tao Of Pooh, Can Do

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

Benjamin Hoff
Views, Way, Tao Of Pooh

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

Benjamin Hoff
Clever, Looks, Tao Of Pooh
"The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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