WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:28:22 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg softness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Lao-tzu -- Tao-te Ching, ch. 78 [tr. Wing-Tsit Chan] https://wist.info/lao-tzu/36804/ https://wist.info/lao-tzu/36804/#respond Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:43:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36804 There is nothing softer and weaker than water.
And yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
For this reason there is no substitute for it.
All the world knows that the weak overcomes the strong and the soft overcomes the hard.
But none can practice it.


Lao-tzu (604?-531? BC) Chinese philosopher, poet [also Lao-tse, Laozi]
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