{"id":707,"date":"2013-08-22T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=707"},"modified":"2013-08-22T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T08:43:07","slug":"lao-tzu-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Lao-tzu quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" style=\"width: 126px; height: 118px;\" alt=\"Speech marks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Lao-tzu (604 BC &#8211; 531 BC), Chinese philosopher<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>He who knows does not speak.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>He who speaks does not know.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>To be worn out is to be renewed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Manifest plainness,<br \/>\n<i>Embrace simplicity,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Reduce selfishness,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Have few desires.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He who knows others is wise.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>He who knows himself is enlightened.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>To have little is to possess.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>To have plenty is to be perplexed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The man who is sorry over the fact will win.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>To know that you do not know is the best.<br \/>\nTo pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lao-tzu (604 BC &#8211; 531 BC), Chinese philosopher He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. To be worn out is to be renewed. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Manifest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-quotations","tag-famous-quotations-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}