QuoteQuest“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, take it and practice it earnestly. Scholars of the middle class, when they hear of it, take it half earnestly. Scholars of the lowest class, when they hear of it, laugh at it. Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.”
— Lao Tzu
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Tzu, Lao. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Laozi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laozi
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