Lao Tzu Quotes

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

... smart but not wise.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.