“Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.”

In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son has five sons also, and before the death of the grandfather there are already 25 descendants. Therefore people are more and wealth Is less; they work hard and receive little.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?

Accept certain inalienable truths.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.