A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.