“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”
Laozi book Tao Te Ching
Variant: Those who know, do not speak, those who speak, do not know.
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 56
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner" <br class="br">Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner" <br class="br">Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013. <br class="br">Misattributed
“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…