“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
More from Bruce Lee on Wisdom
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Little by little does the trick.”
Confucius
19 quotes“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and...”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
George Washington
14 quotes“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.”