"All types of knowledge ultimately lead to..." - Quote by Bruce Lee
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.
More by Bruce Lee
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
“You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.”
“I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.”
More on Self Knowledge
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
“Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.”
“I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.”
More on Expression
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”
“Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.”
“We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.”