Lao Tzu Quotes

• To lead people walk behind them.

  Lao Tzu

• To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  Lao Tzu

• Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

  Lao Tzu

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  Lao Tzu

• The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  Lao Tzu

• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’

  Lao Tzu

• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

  Lao Tzu

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  Lao Tzu

• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  Lao Tzu

• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  Lao Tzu

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  Lao Tzu

• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

  Lao Tzu

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Lao Tzu

• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

  Lao Tzu

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  Lao Tzu

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  Lao Tzu

• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  Lao Tzu

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  Lao Tzu

• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

  Lao Tzu

• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (131)

Birth:	400 BC
Death:	531 BC
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

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