“The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.” MenProblemMathematicsAddErrorsEquationsOnly Time Author:RZA
“I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.” WantHardDrinkingEdgesSmokeSmokingSwimPoolCigaretteOxygenGave Up Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.” ThinkingWayFirstsPatternsManifestationTone Author:RZA
“The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.” WorldWellsBookInfluenceHolyMajorsRevealingHoly BibleGreat BookGita Author:RZA
“I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.” ThinkingGivingSelfActorsDifficultDirectorsTasksThings To DoFeedbackDifficult ThingsEdits Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.” SidesFireStriveInspiredWoodsBurningSparksAlchemist Author:RZA
“When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.” MenFeelsShouldSelfEnoughWiseDegreesBurningBest ThingsSparksSteelEnd TimesFeedingSpend Time Author:RZA
“There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.” PeopleKnowsMenKindDifferentUseOrderStrongAnswersWiseFieldsIllusionAdvantageBlindTricksRighteousDeceivingWickednessMagicianStrong Man Author:RZA
“There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingFallRealizingWiseViolenceFiguresBuildingWalkingVictimCommunicateRighteousContinuingUnnecessaryCattleUnnecessary Things Author:RZA
“The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.” GivingShouldStillsRealitySchoolThreePathOceanMessagesMusic IsFundamentalsStraight Path Author:RZA
