Miyamoto Musashi Quotes

“A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life.”

“A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.”

“Become acquainted with every art.”

“Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.”

“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.”

“In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.”

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”

“Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.”

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is.
And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”

“Under the sword lifted high, There is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, And you have the land of bliss.”

“Why would you want to appear as one thing and be another? If you are a warrior then you are a warrior and if you are not a warrior then you are not a warrior.

The Way of the warrior is the Way of the warrior. To be a warrior, look like a warrior and stand like a warrior. Do not be false to yourself.”