Martial Arts Quotations: Set 5
"Sword and mind must be united. Technique by itself is insufficient, and spirit alone is not enough." - Yamada Jirokichi
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"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create." - Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
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"The first five dan ranks come for what you've gotten out of the system, the next ranks come for what you've given back." - Unknown
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"You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do." - Gichin Funakoshi
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"Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago, and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa." [Written in 1956] - Gichin Funakoshi
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"The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything." - Morihei Ueshiba (O'Sensei)
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"The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred." - Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo (1860-1938)
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"Follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought" - Unknown
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"Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not." - Unknown