Alex Trebek Quotes

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish within yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

If I could go back in time and give Rookie C.J one piece of wisdom, it would be that sometimes less is more. Off the court, sometimes it's just better to shut up and be quiet.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

I observe and remain silent.

Sometimes you have to know when to shut the f - - up.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

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

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

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