Historical Sun Tzu

Famous quotes containing the words historical, sun and/or tzu:

    “What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “Disclose thy Sun beames; close thy wings, and stay;
    See, see, how I am blind, and dead, and stray,
    O thou, that art my Light, my Life, my Way.”
    —Francis Quarles (1592–1644)

    “Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.”
    —Sun Tzu (6th–5th century B.C.)