Bruce Lee Quotes
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351. “An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.”

— Bruce Lee

352. “Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.”

— Bruce Lee

353. “Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.”

— Bruce Lee

354. “To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.”

— Bruce Lee

355. “For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.”

— Bruce Lee

356. “Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.”

— Bruce Lee

357. “What can you take from me which is not already yours?”

— Bruce Lee

358. “Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.”

— Bruce Lee

359. “A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.”

— Bruce Lee

360. “The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.”

— Bruce Lee

361. “We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create.”

— Bruce Lee

362. “If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.”

— Bruce Lee

363. “The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to ‘do’ the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.”

— Bruce Lee

364. “The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.”

— Bruce Lee

365. “If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don’t fuss over it.”

— Bruce Lee

366. “To tolerate is to insult.”

— Bruce Lee

367. “The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.”

— Bruce Lee

368. “Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.”

— Bruce Lee

369. “The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.”

— Bruce Lee

370. “Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing.”

— Bruce Lee

371. “Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.”

— Bruce Lee

372. “The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.”

— Bruce Lee

373. “I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.”

— Bruce Lee

374. “True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.”

— Bruce Lee

375. “Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.”

— Bruce Lee

376. “When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.”

— Bruce Lee

377. “Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down.”

— Bruce Lee

378. “A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.”

— Bruce Lee

379. “Either you understand or you don’t, and that is that.”

— Bruce Lee

380. “Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.”

— Bruce Lee

381. “What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds ‘body feel’ and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.”

— Bruce Lee

382. “Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.”

— Bruce Lee

383. “Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.”

— Bruce Lee

384. “As long as we separate this oneness into two we won’t achieve realization.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

386. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”

— Bruce Lee

387. “You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”

— Bruce Lee

388. “The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.”

— Bruce Lee

389. “To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”

— Bruce Lee

390. “Put every great teacher in a room, and they’d agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.”

— Bruce Lee

391. “The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”

— Bruce Lee

392. “The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body’s action and master your will more easily.”

— Bruce Lee

393. “There are too many stars and too few actors.”

— Bruce Lee

394. “The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.”

— Bruce Lee

395. “There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.”

— Bruce Lee

396. “Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.”

— Bruce Lee

397. “To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”

— Bruce Lee

398. “A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.”

— Bruce Lee

399. “We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.”

— Bruce Lee

400. “The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.”

— Bruce Lee