Battles are not won by strength alone!
Interpretation
Victory requires strategy and intellect, not just physical power.
This quote emphasizes the importance of cleverness and strategy in achieving success. It suggests that while strength may be an asset, it is not the only factor in overcoming challenges; intellect, planning, and proper execution are equally crucial in winning battles, whether on the battlefield or in other aspects of life.
In practice
In a business meeting to explain the importance of teamwork and strategy.
Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.
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.
First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.
Strength is but one aspect of power.
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
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.
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
Being, not doing, is my first joy.
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