Tao Te Ching consists of 81 chapters about the Way: its mystery, its cosmology, and what it teaches us about how to conduct our lives the wisest. The old classic still has a lot to teach us.

It was written by the legendary Lao Tzu (Lao Zi) somewhere between the 6th and the 4th century BC in China. The oldest and major source to Taoism is Tao Te Ching (also spelled Dao De Jing), which translates to The Book on the Way and Virtue. Each of the Tao quotes has a reference to the chapter to which it belongs. Therefore, I have extracted 388 Tao quotes from the Tao Te Ching - just about any line of the text that has a chance of standing on its own. With this website, I hope to give readers a chance of sorting these things out. That makes it very difficult for the reader to check their authentity, as well as the context to which the quotes belong. Also, they usually lack any reference to what chapter of the Tao Te Ching they are derived from.

Unfortunately, the Tao quotes are often far from proper renditions of the original text. The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is quoted on the Internet and elsewhere, almost like no other source but the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare. Click the image to see the book at Amazon (paid link). 389 quotes from the foremost Taoist classic, divided into 51 prominent topics. Tao Quotes The Ancient Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.

Each quote has a link to its chapter in the book. The Tao quotes are sorted into 19 major topics. Here are 388 quotes extracted from the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, the oldest and most important source to Taoism. The Sayings of Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching

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