Josh Radnor Quotes

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

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.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

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)

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.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

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

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

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.

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

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

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

If you're not sure of what to say, don't say anything.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.