Knowing Enemy Quotes

#1. Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

Sun Tzu

#2. Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

Charley Reese

#3. When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.

Miyamoto Musashi

#4. No matter how flat you make your pancakes, it still has two sides.

Daniel Tosh

#5. Your company is the company it keeps.

Jeff Jarvis

#6. Shall not I
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe?

Sophocles

#7. Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Alfred Adler

#8. Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything.

Robert Jordan

#9. Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle.

Michelle Zink

#10. I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

Peter Tosh

#11. The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. I choose my roles carefully.

Catherine Deneuve

#13. A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Nadeem Aslam

#15. I consider every person an enemy until he has proven himself differently, and I find that in knowing my enemies, I can prepare against anything they might send against me.

R.A. Salvatore

#16. Combat doesn't have to be with swords ... Emotions can be deadly weapons, and knowing your enemy's breaking point can be key to winning a battle.

Julie Kagawa

#17. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

Aleister Crowley

#18. You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Miyamoto Musashi

#19. Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

Nenia Campbell

#20. Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

David Hackworth

#21. Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

Brad Thor

#22. Knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

Thucydides

#23. The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.

Joshua Teya

#24. If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.

Jamie Leanne Gaines

#25. Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.

Martin Van Creveld

#26. I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

Herb Ritts

#27. When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#28. Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.

Wilfred Owen

#29. It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their bosoms. This makes them ready to justify themselves, and to be impatient of reproof or admonition, not knowing that they are in any danger. 2 Chronicles 16:10

John Owen

#30. I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

A.W. Tozer

#31. The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Alfred Kazin

#32. When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!

Vicki Norris