Louis B. Mayer Quotes

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.