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Laozi Quotes about Knowledge

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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

Wise, Clever, Knowledge

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Knowledge, Taoism, True Words

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Knowledge, Taoism, Arguing

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

Knowledge, Taoism, Illness

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

Ignorance, Knowledge, Intelligent

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Book, Ignorance, Knowledge

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Knowledge, Knowing, Taoism

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Teacher, Knowledge, Taoism

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Patience, Knowledge, Water

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

Letting Go, Knowledge, Taoism

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Clever, Knowledge, People

Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

Knowledge, Worry, Taoism

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

Knowledge, Taoism, Sage

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Knowledge, Taoism, Trends

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

Teacher, Confused, Knowledge

I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

Knowledge, Understanding, Mind

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

Knowledge, Taoism, Arise

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.

Knowledge, Practice, Taoism

"Tao teh king (the way of peace) of Lao-Tzu".

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

Ignorance, Knowledge, Sick

Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”

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.

Laughter, Knowledge, Average

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

Knowledge, Taoism, Understand Me

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

Knowledge, People, Taoism

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

Knowledge, People, Taoism

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

Knowledge, Long, People

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

Knowledge, People, Taoism

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