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The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks


Yiddish Proverb

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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed...
BIBLE Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a...
BIBLE The difference between a fool and a wise person: You will easily know when the fool is annoyed, but ...
THE INSPIRATIONIST When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kind...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB The fool speaks, the wise man listens
AFRICAN PROVERB Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth ev...
VIKRANT PARSAI Why a wise man think that he is more smarter than a Fool!
JAN JANSEN A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
TURKISH PROVERB The fool speaks when he has nothing to say.
VIKRANT PARSAI A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds back.
BIBLE A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
ANATOLE FRANCE A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
TURKISH PROVERB The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountainto...
DEBORAH HARKNESS When the fool knows when to be silent, he would be sitting among the wise.
VIKRANT PARSAI A fool who thinks that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man. The fool who thinks that he...
SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BUDDHISM When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet la...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The wise man stops being wise when he gets angry.
VIKRANT PARSAI He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his ton...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
JONATHAN SWIFT The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.
VIKRANT PARSAI See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7
BIBLE When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards.
TOBA BETA True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fo...
AKHENATON AKHENATON True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fo...
AKHENATON The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
BIBLE When the Hun is poor and down, he's the humblest man in town, But once he climbs all holds the rod, ...
JOSEPH CATS A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom nec...
H. L. MENCKEN There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
C. C. PHELPS The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom nec...
H. L. MENCKEN A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
AESOP The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
CRISS JAMI Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
ANONYMOUS This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his...
LAO TZU A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
SIR FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12).
BIBLE A wise man finds joy when he finds himself no longer a slave to his emotions.
KAREMA MCGHEE The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
CONFUCIUS [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
CONFUCIUS With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so...
RON CHERNOW A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
BRUCE LEE "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
BRUCE LEE Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When a wise man offers advice, only a fool would refuse it.
DUSTIN H. MATHENY To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a...
WILLIAM BLAKE Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
MICHAEL REED At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a prove...
CHINUA ACHEBE No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he m...
HARVEY CUSHING A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man -- he ...
HARVEY CUSHING A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
JOHN DOS PASSOS To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
EURIPIDES He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hid...
GEORGE MOORE (Bean) is such a dedicated person. He?s the type of guy that says what he does and does what he says...
KATHIE LYNCH A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Everyone is wise until he speaks.
PROVERB Everyone is wise until he speaks.
IRISH PROVERB A wise man changes his mind, a fool never
SPANISH PROVERB The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
DYAN CANNON Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
BIBLE When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
UNKNOWN A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
UNKNOWN A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
PROVERB The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is n...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Trump is like a Shakespearean 'fool': he seems crass because he speaks the truth.
ANN COULTER A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not de...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
ENGLISH PROVERB It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving f...
JAMES RAMSEY ULLMAN A man who says something different from the normal talk always appear to others to be running ahead,...
ANUJ SOMANY A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
JOHN MILTON Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk,...
BEN JOHNSON

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