"After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge...." - Quote by Bruce Lee

“'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.”

“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.”

“All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.”

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”

“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.”

“The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.”

“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

“Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.”