Gina Gershon Quotes

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

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

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

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.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

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

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

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

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

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

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.