
“The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.”
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 5, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
Context: The Tao is like a bellows:
it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
“The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.”
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.
“The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.”
“The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.”
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.
“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“In my experience, the more you know of the gods, the more you know what you cannot understand.”
Eddis
A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989) by Jeffrey M. Elliot