Tao Of Pooh Quotes

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.