Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
True words seem false.
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
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