Quotes About Insight

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

I am at war with the obvious.

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

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

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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

I, too, saw God through mud

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

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