Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Chuang Tzu Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A drunken man who falls out of a cart, though he may suffer, does not die. His bones are the same as other people's; but he meets his accident in a different way. His spirit is in a condition of security. He is not conscious of riding in the cart; neither is he conscious of falling out of it. Ideas of life, death, fear and the like cannot penetrate his breast; and so he does not suffer from contact with objective existence. If such security is to be got from wine, how much more is it to be got from God? —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. . . . Suddenly I awakened, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: fame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid, wear themselves out rushing around on business, spend night and day scheming and scrutinizing. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long time, then he has spent that much time worrying. This is a callous way to treat the body. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: life fear ease clothes happiness wealth worry business honor food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A drunken man who falls out of a cart, though he may suffer, does not die. His bones are the same as other people's; but he meets his accident in a different way. His spirit is in a condition of security. He is not conscious of riding in the cart; neither is he conscious of falling out of it. Ideas of life, death, fear and the like cannot penetrate his breast; and so he does not suffer from contact with objective existence. If such security is to be got from wine, how much more is it to be got from God? —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. . . . Suddenly I awakened, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: fame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid, wear themselves out rushing around on business, spend night and day scheming and scrutinizing. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long time, then he has spent that much time worrying. This is a callous way to treat the body. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: life fear ease clothes happiness wealth worry business honor food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “speech” Thought is the fountain of speech. —Chrysippus More about this quote Tags: speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. —Bob Marley More about this quote Tags: speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Examine what is said, not him who speaks. —Arab Proverb More about this quote Tags: attention speech proverbs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. —Plato More about this quote Tags: foolishness speech talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. —George W. Bush More about this quote Tags: power responsibility speech explanation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thought is the fountain of speech. —Chrysippus More about this quote Tags: speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. —Bob Marley More about this quote Tags: speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Examine what is said, not him who speaks. —Arab Proverb More about this quote Tags: attention speech proverbs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. —Plato More about this quote Tags: foolishness speech talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. —George W. Bush More about this quote Tags: power responsibility speech explanation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email