Mao Zedong Quotes

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

What you sees, is what you gets.

Reality is an acquired taste.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

A hair divides what is false and true.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.