Philosophy Quotes

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

- Albert Einstein

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But with deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

- Albert Einstein

"All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree."

- Albert Einstein

"There's no good reason to be the richest man in the cemetery."

- Col. Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

"The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."

- Louise J. Kaplan

"Martial Arts should be a way of life, not a job, hobby, sport, but a part of you and the way you live your life."

- Frank Gutting

"The way of the sword and the Way of Zen are identical, for they have the same purpose; that of killing the ego."

- Yamada Jirokichi

""Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.""

- Chris Matakas

""It isn't what you do, but how you do it.""

- Rafa Mendes

""Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.""

- John Milton

"In Jewish history there are no coincidences."

- Elie Wiesel

"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."

- Bob Dylan

"It’s the chains we choose that set us free."

- David Brooks

"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."

- John Locke

"Freedom is taken, not given."

- Ahad Haam

"I want to build up my philosophy…my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people."

- Jackie Chan

"Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu."

- Jackie Chan

"Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."

- John B. S. Haldane

"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."

- Ethel Waters

"There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going."

- Jena Malone

"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other."

- Laurence J. Peter

"Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up."

- Alan Ladd

"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."

- Jules Feiffer

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

- Anita Brookner

""Spirit first, technique second.""

- Gichin Funakoshi

"At 50, everyone has the face they deserve."

- George Orwell

"Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

- Victor Hugo