Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I know love is the answer.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Death is a fearful thing.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.