Wang Bi Quotes on Knowledge
Wang Bi was a Chinese philosopher of the Three Kingdoms period and the most important early commentator on the Daode jing and the Yijing. This page collects quotes attributed to Wang Bi on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Wang Bi:
“Returning to the root is the way of the wise.”
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Attributed to Wang Bi:
“Names cannot reach what is most fundamental; only the wordless can name it.”
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“We must resist the notion that there is only one way to be a woman, one way to be African, and one way to be human.”
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“Nobel lecture (10 December 2004)”
As I conclude I reflect on my childhood experience when I would visit a stream next to our home to fetch water for my mother. I would drink water straight from the stream. Playing among the arrowroot leaves I tried in vain to pick up the strands of frogs’ eggs, believing they were beads. But every time I put my little fingers under them they would break. Later, I saw thousands of tadpoles: black, -
“Speech at Goldman Awards, San Francisco (24 April 2006)”
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree , you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.