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All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

War is in the eyes.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.