"He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
as a result of answering a forwarded-via-email character test, i got this:
hmmm...
nice quote. where was it from??
ReplyDeleteoriginally posted on 02.06.05 - 5:40 pm using Haloscan comment board
i really searched for it. some sources say the author is unknown. others credit it to lao tse. others say tao te ching. and since i don't know whether both lao tse and tao te ching refer to the sage lao tzu, i decided not to write the author's name and presented it as a quote still.
ReplyDeleteoriginally posted on 02.06.05 - 6:08 pm using Haloscan comment board
hi caterpillartalk!
ReplyDeleteyou may want to take a look at this:
http://www.yakrider.com/Tao/laotzu.htm
The author is Lao Tzu (Lao Tse). He wrote "Tao Te Ching" (Book of The Way and its Power) duirng the Chou dynasty, some 2600 years ago.
originally posted on 02.07.05 - 2:14 pm using Haloscan comment board
ahhhh... enlightenment! i did know that lao tse's lao tzu, but i didn't know about tao te ching being the title of his book.
ReplyDeletethanks, tsutsugamushi!
originally posted on02.07.05 - 2:51 pm using Haloscan comment board
ur welcome caterpillartalk!
ReplyDeletewhat a boring job! what a boring day!
what a boring life!
i hope i can take up my post grad na. btw, what are you taking up sa master's?
originally posted on 02.07.05 - 4:57 pm using Haloscan comment board
physics.
ReplyDeleteoriginally posted on 02.07.05 - 6:44 pm using Haloscan comment board
yeah, tao te ching (can also be dao de jing) is a book. it's where tao chia (philosophical taoism) is based. it's very interesting and makabuang! read it, val!
ReplyDeleteoriginally posted on 02.08.05 - 11:17 am using Haloscan comment board
hala, makabuang? sure, i will!
ReplyDeleteoriginally posted on 02.08.05 - 11:46 am using Haloscan comment board