Wang Yangming Quotes

• Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

  Wang Yangming

  Practice, Knowing, Completion

  Yangming Wang (1916). “The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming”

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• To know and not to act is not to know.

  Wang Yangming

  Knows

  "Cosmopolis". Book by Don DeLillo, 2003.

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• The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

  Wang Yangming

  Inspirational, Mistake, Lying

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• Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

  Wang Yangming

  Action, Values

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• People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They say [they will wait] till they truly know before putting their knowledge into practice. Consequently to the end of their lives, they will never act and also will never know.

  Wang Yangming

  Believe, Practice, People

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• The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

  Wang Yangming

  Running, Men, Order

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• If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.

  Wang Yangming

  Heart, Eye, Years

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• Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

  Wang Yangming

  Afterlife, Effort, Heaven

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• Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura.

  Wang Yangming

  Yang, Auras, Force

  Yangming Wang (1916). “The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming”

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