Quotes about Wisdom

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.