Echoes

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I know that I know nothing.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.

To account nothing of one’s self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life. Yet even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. But this conviction must be firmly grasped and not merely adopted in words, if we wish to draw any strength from what we know.

Man knows much more than he understands.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.