Lao Tzu Quotes

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

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

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

If I can learn how to rely on my own strength, I can see the answers to my problems usually lie right there, within the problem itself.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.