Great Throughts Treasury

"Speech is the voice of the heart."

"The end of learning is the formation of character."

"To know others is hard, but to know yourself is still harder."

"We have not enough if we look upward, but more than enough if we look downward."

"He who can will can always accomplish."

"Misfortunes issue where diseases enter - at the mouth."

"The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future."

"To be born a man, the soul of the universe, is indeed a blessing."

"Study is for the sake of knowing tao. Studying poorly and not knowing tao is the same as not having studied. Furthermore, knowing tao is for the sake of practicing it. Studying and knowing tao without practicing it is the same as not having learned it."