
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee
19 quotes by Bruce Lee on the subject of wisdom, collected from across the QuotePlace library. If you came looking for Bruce Lee's thinking on wisdom specifically, rather than everything Bruce Lee ever said, this is the page. About the author: Bruce Lee (1940–1973) — Martial artist and actor.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.Bruce Lee

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.Bruce Lee

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.Bruce Lee

Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.Bruce Lee

Obey the principles without being bound by them.Bruce Lee

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.Bruce Lee

It is not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.Bruce Lee

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.Bruce Lee

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge.Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.Bruce Lee

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought patterns.Bruce Lee

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.Bruce Lee

Don't think, feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.Bruce Lee