Lao Tzu Quotes

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power

Knowledge is no burden.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!