Yamaoka Tesshu Quotes
If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself.
Yamaoka Tesshu
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Faith Ford
Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
William Lewis Trogdon
If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself.
Yamaoka Tesshu
