A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.
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Roy T. Bennett
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
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Alfred Brendel
Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.
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Anthony T. Hincks
When you remain silent, your voice is the loudest.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
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Dejan Stojanovic
More Quotes By Plutarch
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. “For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire...
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
