Quote from Chuang Tzu

edit history

Source

Context

Similar quotes

Great knowledge is wide and comprehensive; small knowledge is partial and restricted. Great speech is exact and complete small speech is merely so much talk."

—Chuang Tzu
Yes, we know that you find this deeply offensive. But you will have to endure it. Others in America must also endure speech which they find just as offensive. Someday, people might even find speech of yours to be deeply offensive. We won’t try to censor that any more than we will act on your calls to censor others’ speech now. Living in a free society means accepting the risk of being offended; it also carries the responsibility to not censor those you abhor, but rather to counter their speech with speech of your own.

—Austin Cline (02/04/2008)
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

—Woodrow Wilson
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

—Ambrose Bierce
'Religion' is just codified superstition: unproven, unproveable stories made up by other people. As such, these many stories are entitled to no special protection under any laws; it would mean making laws to protect lying and nonsense from examination and investigation. It would mean the cowardly, hypocritical, "politically correct" suicide of our ability to think and reason.

—Vladislaus Basarab
Poetry is not a certain this or a certain that. With or without rhyme. Beat or academic. Uplifting or depressing. Accessible or obscure. Poetry is all. At its heart, simply, a condensed form. Free to violate the strict rules of prose. Free to explore the subterranean passage of mind and soul. We must allow it to be whatever it needs to be. Only then will we realize the vitality of its song.

—Laurence Overmire
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

—Walt Disney
“This view is the same as that, and that view is the same as this. But that view involves both a right and a wrong; this view involves also a right and a wrong. Are there or are there not the two views that and this? They have not found their point of correspondency that is called the pivot of the Tao. As soon as one finds this pivot, he stands in the center of ring of thought where he can correspond without end to the changing views, without end to those affirming and without end to those denying. Therefore I said ‘There is nothing like the proper light of mind’. “

—Chuang Tzu
A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

—Jack Gardner (2005)
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

—W. Somerset Maugham
Space and time are not conditions in which we live; they are simply modes in which we think.

—Albert Einstein
I believe in time,
matter, and energy,
which make up the whole of the world.

I believe in reason, evidence and the human mind,
the only tools we have;
they are the product of natural forces
in a majestic but impersonal universe,

—PZ Myers
You don’t know about betrayal until your own mind lets you down

—Zelda Fitzgerald
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

—Arthur Schopenhauer
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

—James Allen (1902)
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

—William James
Some among Bush's trusted White House staff fear what they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly reminds them of Richard Nixon's Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon's paranoia, he may entertain even more dangerous notions.

—Mike Hersh
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

—Djuna Barnes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

—Rene Descartes

Users who like this quote

None. =(

Comments

Quote of the day

Show a random quote

About Quotiki

Quotiki is a social quotes wiki that lets you quickly find and enjoy quotes. As a member of the community, you can start tagging, rating, submitting and collecting quotes.

Find famous people and your friends in speeches, dialogs, chat logs, quotations, sayings, jokes and more! Tag yourself and other people in your favorite quotes and easily share them with friends.

15799 total quotes.
edentist is our newest user. Welcome!

Quotiki! Quotes and Quotations

Quotes