Zhuang Zhou

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

Zhuang Zhou

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

Zhuang Zhou

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Zhuang Zhou

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

Zhuang Zhou

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Zhuang Zhou

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening.

Zhuang Zhou

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

Zhuang Zhou

When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.

Zhuang Zhou

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

Zhuang Zhou

Words are for meaning: when you’ve got the meaning, you can forget the words.

Zhuang Zhou