Lao Tzu Quotes

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

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

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

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

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

To lead people walk behind them.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.