Art Quote by Sun Tzu

“If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.” quote by Sun Tzu — Download Open image

“If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.”

Sun Tzu

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Art Art of war Authority Children Command Disorder Felt Hearted Ifs Incapable Kind Kind hearted Practicals Purpose Soldier Spoilt Strategist Useless War

More by Sun Tzu

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack…

Sun Tzu

Image

It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see…

Sun Tzu

Image

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

Sun Tzu

Image

“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.”

Sun Tzu

Image

“The PEOPLE being regarded as the essential part of the State, and FOOD as the people's heaven, is it not right that those in…

Sun Tzu

Image

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

Sun Tzu

Image

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his…

Sun Tzu

“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.”

Sun Tzu

Image

“You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.”

Sun Tzu

Image

“Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make…

Sun Tzu

Image

If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely…

Sun Tzu

Image

“The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes…

Sun Tzu

Image

Explore all 685 Sun Tzu quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Aaron Rose

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley