Taoism Quotes - Page 27

• The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

  Laozi

  Life, Wise, Learning

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

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• I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?

  Meng Haoran

  Summer, Morning, Spring

  Meng Haoran, “Spring Dawn”

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• Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If you view flowers in full bloom and drink to drunkenness, it becomes a bad experience. Those who are living to the full should think about this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fun, Flower, Wine

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• The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.

  Lie Yukou

  Understanding, Sage, World

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• Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way, course or movement of the Universe, her processes and methods. In other words, Taoism is the Religion of Heaven and Earth, of the Cosmos, of the World or Nature in the broadest sense of these words. Hence we may call it Naturism.

  Jan Jakob Maria de Groot

  Heaven, Peculiar, Cosmos

  Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1892). “The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspects, Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith”, p.66, Brill Archive

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• What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

  Jian Yang

  Mean, Development, Way

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• When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

  Lu Jun Hong

  Heart, Mind, Desire

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• Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

  James Legge

  Men, Laos, Exhibitions

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• The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Doe

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• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"

  Zicheng Hong

  Home, Doors, Acting

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• Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

  Laozi

  Majestic, Righteousness, Eternal

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• The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

  Laozi

  Way, Virtue

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• The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

  Laozi

  Example, Sage, World

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• Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

  Laozi

  World, Whole, Whole World

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• If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

  Laozi

  Way, Ifs

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• Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

  Laozi

  Order, Profound, Virtue

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• When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

  Laozi

  Abandoned, Arise, Righteousness

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• Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Knows

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• Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Worry, Abandon

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• I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Understanding, Mind

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• Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Forever, Soul

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• Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.

  Zicheng Hong

  Confused, Emotional, Understanding

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• Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.

  Zicheng Hong

  May, Live Simply, Ruined

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• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  Zicheng Hong

  Ignorant, Weakness, Brilliant

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