First Line: THOSE WHO SPEAK KNOW NOTHING Last Line: OF FIVE THOUSAND WORDS? Subject(s): CHINA - TANG DYNASTY (618-905); LAO-TZU (6TH CENTURY);
"THOSE who speak know nothing; Those who know are silent." These words, as I am told, Were spoken by Lao-tzu. If we are to believe that Lao-tzu Was himself @3one who knew,@1 How comes it that he wrote a book Of five thousand words?