If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your …

- Wang Yangming

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

- Wang Yangming

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

- Wang Yangming

People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They say [they …

- Wang Yangming

To know and not to act is not to know.

- Wang Yangming

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

- Wang Yangming

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct hi…

- Wang Yangming

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

- Wang Yangming

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.

- Wang Yangming