Learning To Keep Your Mouth Shut Quotes & Sayings

That is the problem with age and wisdom - it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever. — Bill Bonner

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. — Joe Abercrombie

He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create. — Suzanne Young

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water. — Austin O'Malley

. . . the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes . . .' October — Daniel Keyes

Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through. — Amber Tamblyn

Happiness has nothing to do with success, happiness has nothing to do with ambition, happiness has nothing to do with money, power, prestige. Happiness has something to do with your consiousness, not with your character. — Osho

The difference was principally in the invisible places toward which their respective hearts were turned. They dreamed of Cairo with its autonomous government, its army, its newspapers and its cinema, while he, facing in the same direction, dreamed just a little beyond Cairo, across the Bhar El Hamar to Mecca. They thought in terms of grievances, censorship, petitions and reforms; he, like any good Moslem who knows only the tenets of his religion, in terms of destiny and divine justice. If the word 'independence' was uttered, they saw platoons of Moslem soldiers marching through streets were all the signs were written in Arabic script, they saw factories and power plants rising from the fields; he saw skies of flame, the wings of avenging angels, and total destruction. — Paul Bowles

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. — William Blake

[E]ducation is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of elementary and secondary education, of course ... . I began to remember what it had been like: the tremendous excitement of the first couple of years, when kids imagine that great secrets are going to be unfolding before them, then the disappointment that gradually sets in when you begin to realize the truth: There's plenty of learning to do, but it's not the learning you wanted. It's learning to keep your mouth shut, learning how to avoid attracting the teacher's attention when you don't want it, learning not to ask questions, learning how to pretend to understand, learning how to tell teachers what they want to hear, learning to keep your own ideas and opinions to yourself, learning how to look as if you're paying attention, learning how to endure the endless boredom. — Daniel Quinn

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope. — Megan Whalen Turner

But if the teacher does little more than dictate that information and then demand that students memorize and parrot it on tests, they are not learning democratic values. Instead, they are learning to survive as subjects of an autocracy: keep your head down, your mouth shut, and repeat the party line whether or not you understand it or believe it. — Parker J. Palmer

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology. — Kage Baker

Waiter, why on earth is there a footprint on my pie? You did ask me to step on it, sir. — Jane Eccles

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run. — James Stockdale

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy — Jim Rohn

Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during sexual assault is profound, especially for children who have no concept of what is happening to them or why. Sexual abuse is so bizarre and horrible that the frightened child feels compelled to bury the event deep inside his or her mind. — Renee Fredrickson