"Learn it all, then forget it all."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Bruce Lee was a martial artist and philosopher known for his revolutionary impact on martial arts and his advocacy for personal expression.
- Born
- November 27, 1940
- Died
- July 20, 1973
- Quotes
- 496
- Rank
- #31
Quote collection
Bruce Lee quotes (page 13 of 25)
496 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do."
"In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes."
"If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life."
"When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist."
"Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear."
"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."
"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."
"Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand."
"If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you."
"Either push your limits or die."
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
"It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person."
"Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception."
"Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process, an ever-renewing process."
"Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess."
"Be like water, my friend."
"It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose."
"Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing."
"When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon."