“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”

—  Bruce Lee

Variant: Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 46

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Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973

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