Yoshida Quotes
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Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.
— Yoshida Kenko
It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth.
— Yoshida Kenko
If you break out of this world you'll find this world again, only one size larger ...
— Shuichi Yoshida
It harms a man more to wound his heart than to hurt his body.
— Yoshida Kenko
If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.
— Yoshida Shoin
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
— Yoshida Kenko
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
— Shigeru Yoshida
Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
— Yoshida Kenko
History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.
— Shigeru Yoshida
And besides, thought Yoshida, If it was all right for God to test man, why was it wrong for man to test God?
— Haruki Murakami
It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.
— Yoshida Kenko
There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.
— Yoshida Kenko
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
— Shigeru Yoshida
Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
— Kenko Yoshida
All things of this phenomenal world are mere illusion. They are worth neither discussing nor desiring.
— Yoshida Kenko
If you rely neither on yourself nor on others, you will rejoice when things go well, and not be aggrieved when they don't.
— Yoshida Kenko
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
— Yoshida Kenko
Why should it be so difficult to carry something out right now when you think of it, to seize the instant?
— Yoshida Kenko
Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
— Shigeru Yoshida
I know faith. Therefore, I must embrace the crown of thorns. I seek the truth. Therefore, I must dare to disobey God.
— Sunao Yoshida
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
— Yoshida Shoin
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
— Yoshida Kenko
It's the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful.
— Yoshida Kenko
I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
— Shigeru Yoshida
I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky
— Yoshida Kenko
The longer you live, the greater your share of shame.
— Yoshida Kenko
For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.
— Yoshida Kenko
Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.
— Shigeru Yoshida
The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.
— Yoshida Kenko
Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.
— Yoshida Kenko
