Wang Yangming Quotes

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

To know and not to act is not to know.

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura.