To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.