大知小知大知小知
莊子庄子
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Translation
Great knowledge is broad and unhurried; small knowledge is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and lofty; small words are shrill and quarrelsome. In sleep, spirits intermingle; in waking, the body opens. Whatever we encounter hooks us. Day after day we use our minds in struggle — sometimes grandiose, sometimes sly, sometimes petty. Little fears bring agitation; great fears bring stupefaction. Thoughts shoot out like a trigger released — judging this right and that wrong.

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