Ptahhotep Quotes

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

I know things but I shut my mouth.

As important as having strength is knowing how to use it.

I will begin to speak when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

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

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

Think a lot, say little, and write nothing.

He lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I need to control my mouth.

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

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.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.