Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

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

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.