When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence…

Laozi
972 citations
When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
Humanity Humor Time
24

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

27

The Best Quotes

Agnosticism is not properly described as a negative creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it exp…
Thomas Huxley
Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument. ✨ Wilfred Fu…
Wilfred Funk
Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake ✨ A Little Bo…
H. L. Mencken
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
Karl Kraus
I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I gre…
Nicole Anderson
But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract. ✨ John C. Maxwell (2007). The 21 Indispensable …
John C. Maxwell
Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to wor…
David Wilcock
I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.
Billy Preston
People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation i…
David Miscavige
Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course …
Deborah Eisenberg
I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone. ✨ Brewster Ghiselin (1985). The Creative Process: A Symposi…
Brewster Ghiselin
The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precio…
David Harvey
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Crossing, p.301, Pan Macmillan
Cormac McCarthy
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people …
Tara Brach
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
Hal Abelson
As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be …
Nathan Meyer Rothschild

Most Liked Authors

27

Curated Author Quotes

82 Unforgettable 🦇 Batman Quotes