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25 Best Lao Tzu Quotes | 2Quotes

25 Best Lao Tzu Quotes | 2Quotes

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Thuday, 30/06/2016 03:06

Lao Tzu (老子 Lǎo zi, 6th century BC) was one of the most famous Chinese philosophers. Not much is known of the details of his life, and some have thought he was not a real person. He was the author of a book called Tao Te Ching, The Way of Life, a work of about 81 stories with a consistent theme or moral.

25 Best Lao Tzu Quotes:

Lao Tzu Quotes

Lao Tzu Quotes

1. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

― Lao Tzu

2. Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

― Lao Tzu

3. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

― Lao Tzu

4. Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

― Lao Tzu

5. Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

― Lao Tzu

6. People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

― Lao Tzu

7. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses

― Lao Tzu

8. Silence is a source of Great Strength.

― Lao Tzu

9. To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

― Lao Tzu

10. Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

― Lao Tzu

11. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,

There arises the recognition of ugliness.

When they all know the good as good,

There arises the recognition of evil.

― Lao Tzu

12. Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

― Lao Tzu

13. Stop thinking, and end your problems.

― Lao Tzu

14. Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

15. Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

― Lao Tzu

16. He who knows others is wise;

He who know himself is enlightened.

― Lao Tzu

17. Great acts are made up of small deeds.

― Lao Tzu

18. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

― Lao Tzu

19. When goodness is lost there is morality.

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

20. When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."

― Lao Tzu