"Those who are right do not argue...." - Quote by Lao Tzu
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
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“As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.”
“Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!”
“The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.”
More on Truth
“We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.”
“What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!”
“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”
More on Argument
“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said”
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.”
“You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.”