Listening to an idea you disagree with makes you wise.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

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

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

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

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.