"Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his…" — Sun Tzu

"Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement."

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407 Quotes by Sun Tzu

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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
All war is deception.
One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or…
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe…
Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's…
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;…
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which…

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More Agitate Quotes

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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. — Susan B. Anthony
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll… — Carl G. Fisher
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart. — Radhanath Swami
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the… — Samuel Johnson
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances — Vandana Shiva
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is… — Ernestine Rose
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of… — Michel de Montaigne
Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we… — Henepola Gunaratana
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. — William Cobbett

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