Wisdom Quotes

"There is a history in all men's lives."

- William Shakespeare

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

- Mark Twain

"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

- Robert Heinlein

"Only the vanquished remember history."

- Marshall McLuhan

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The best prophet of the future is the past."

- Lord Byron

"Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, but happy is one who keeps the law."

- Proverbs 29:18

"Not the day only, but all things have their morning."

- French Proverb

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

- Lao Tzu

"A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscriminately."

- Chotoku Kyan

"A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it."

- Jet Li

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

- Sun Tzu

"The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

- Sun Tzu

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later – Squish!"

- Mr. Miyagi, Karate Kid

"Force has no place where there is need of skill."

- Herodotus

"No plan of action ever survives contact with the enemy."

- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

"Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to."

- Lakshya Bharadwaj

"You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"Do not fight with the strength, absorb it and it flows, use it."

- Ip Man

"Happy 21st! May your path be filled with wisdom, compassion, and a heart full of dreams waiting to be realized."

"You are another year older and another year wiser—happy birthday."

"There are two rules for being successful in martial arts. Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know."

"There are two rules for being successful in Martial Arts. Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know."

"The fastest draw is when the sword never leaves the scabbard. The strongest way to block, is never to provoke a blow. And the cleanest cut is the one withheld."

"To a real warrior, power perceived may be power achieved."