“in the pursuit of knowledge: everyday something is added.in the pursuit of enlightenment:everyday something is dropped.”
“To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.”
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
“He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it).”
“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.”
“The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).”
“One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom. Mastering others requires force; mastering the self needs strength.”