Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book
“Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.”
Raymond E. Feist book Krondor: The Betrayal
Source: Krondor: The Betrayal
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
"4th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80nhqGfN6t8, Youtube (December 25, 2007) <br class="br">Youtube, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) Chinese politician and military leader
Original: 如果戰端一開,就是地無分南北,年無分老幼,無論何人,皆有守土抗戰之責任,皆應抱定犧牲一切之決心!
蔣介石廬山《應戰宣言》
“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Bobby, it don't matter how you stand; it matter where you end up!”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Circa 1956 or 1957, regarding his failure to find one consistent batting stance; as quoted by Pirate reliever Art Swanson in Remember Roberto: Clemente Recalled by Teammates, Family, Friends and Fans (1994) by Jim O'Brien, p. 348
Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Variant translations
If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Know your enemy and know yourself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know yourself but not your enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know not thy enemy nor yourself, wallow in defeat every time.
Literal translation: Know [the] other, know [the] self, hundred battles without danger; not knowing [the] other but know [the] self, one win one loss; not knowing [the] other, not knowing [the] self, every battle must [be] lost.
Source: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack