CM Punk Quotes

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

I'm understated in my approach.

Tis better to sit there and look the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Hear, see, and be silent.

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

The more you know the less you need to say.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

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

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

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.