Lao Tzu Quotes

• When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

  Lao Tzu

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  Lao Tzu

• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  Lao Tzu

• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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• To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

  Lao Tzu

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  Lao Tzu

• To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

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• To lead people walk behind them.

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• 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.

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

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• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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

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• 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.’

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

  Lao Tzu

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• 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

Lao Tzu (131)

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

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