Sun Tzu: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a…
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
- Source
- From the book The Art of War, Chapter III, Attack by Stratagem; translated by Lionel Giles, 1910
- Also quoted as
- Also quoted as “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
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