Wang Yangming famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
-- Wang Yangming

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Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura.
-- Wang Yangming

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Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.
-- Wang Yangming

#Knowing #Practice #Completion
To know and not to act is not to know.
-- Wang Yangming
If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.
-- Wang Yangming

#Eye #Heart #Years
Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.
-- Wang Yangming

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Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.
-- Wang Yangming

#Action #Values
People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They say [they will wait] till they truly know before putting their knowledge into practice. Consequently to the end of their lives, they will never act and also will never know.
-- Wang Yangming

#Believe #Practice #People
The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.
-- Wang Yangming

#Running #Men #Order

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

Wang Yangming famous quotes

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