If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. -Sun-Tzu

 

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.


-Sun-Tzu
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This quote is just one of 12 total Sun-Tzu quotes in our collection. Sun-Tzu is known for saying 'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Sun Tzu

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

Sun Tzu

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Sun Tzu