Quotes About Knowledge

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Know thy self, know thy enemy.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.