Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

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

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I give opinions, not advice.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.