Laozi Quotes About Knowledge
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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
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Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
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Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
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Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
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Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
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He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.
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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
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To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day
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In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
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People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.
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True words seem false.
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I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
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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.
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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.
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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
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The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.
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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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