Tao Te Ching Quotes - Page 4

• The more you know the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Mlm, Taoism

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• The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

  Laozi

  Mother, Heaven, Taoism

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• The more you know, the less you carry

  Mors Kochanski

  Mlm, Monk, Patagonia

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• The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist.
  The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
  Next comes the one who is feared.
  The worst one is the leader that is despised ...
  The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly.
  When they have accomplished their task,
  the people say, "Amazing!
  We did it, all by ourselves!

  Laozi

  People, Leader, Tasks

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• Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Mlm, Fearless, Remember

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.174, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Saints And Sinners, Book Of Tao

  Laozi (2016). “The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition”, p.97, Dudeism LLC

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• The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Used, Wells

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• A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Mistake, Men

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Heart, Practice

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

  Laozi

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.

  Kent Nerburn

  Strong, Fear, Heart

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• The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thousand, Reserves, Ten

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Philosophy, Issues

  "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

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• When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.

  Henry Chang

  Heart, Trying, Use

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