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Miyamoto Musashi Quotes about Understanding

Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles.

Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.

Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.16, Bottom of the Hill

Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.

Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.31, Lulu Press, Inc

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.13, Shambhala Publications