Muhammad Quotes

I never miss a good chance to shut up

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, silence prevails; the wisdom of the world, however, goes astray into idle talk.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.