#Tao Te Ching: Chapter 56
Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know.
Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.
Be like the Tao.
It can't be approached or withdrawn from,
benefited or harmed,
honored or brought into disgrace.
It gives itself up continually.
That is why it endures.
Why is someone who is visually inclined allowed to make drawings in support of his reasoning, but someone who is auditorily inclined not speak aloud in support of his reasoning?
Or said differently, "fuck the bullshit excuse that if someone speaks about something they must be an idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about!"
I've heard that way too often. It's wrong in by far the most cases, and it's fucking disgusting to dictate what some is or isn't allowed to do to "appear intelligent/knowledgeable".
