Zhuge Quotes

#1. O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?

Zhou Yu

#2. As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon.

David Foster Wallace

#3. If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

Milton Friedman

#4. There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.

Zhuge Liang

#5. What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

Zhuge Liang

#6. Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

Zhuge Liang

#7. Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.

Zhuge Liang

#8. The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.

Kevin Systrom

#9. A beautiful woman moved in next door. So I went over and returned a cup of sugar. She said, "You didn't borrow this." I said, " I will!"

Steven Wright

#10. All jealousy must be strangled in its birth ...

William Davenant

#11. An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

Zhuge Liang

#12. Strength is but one aspect of power.

Zhuge Liang

#13. How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it.

Hannah Kent

#14. The sky is a soggy purple.

Ayn Rand

#15. The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

Patrick Collison

#16. Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.

Zhuge Liang

#17. Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Zhuge Liang

#18. To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

Zhuge Liang

#19. The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

John Dufresne

#20. The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

Zhuge Liang

#21. Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
Don Juan Matus

Carlos Castaneda

#22. When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Plutarch

#23. First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

Zhuge Liang

#24. Stand up and walk. Keep going forward. You have two strong legs to take you there.

Hiromu Arakawa

#25. Battles are not won by strength alone!

Zhuge Liang

#26. It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.

Arthur Compton