“This is the world and this is life. The more you reply to negative words, the more they fool you, and the less you speak, the more they stupid you.”
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“Have more than you show,
Speak less than you know.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“The more books you read, the more stupid you become.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Speech (26 June 1965), quoted in Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story (2005), p. 507
1960s
“The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie;”
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (1728–1795) Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician
As quoted in Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals, and Things, 1800, p. 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=vFJFAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA4&ots=ZtdzIH54NC&dq=inauthor%3Ajohann%20inauthor%3Azimmermann%20%22the%20more%20you%20speak%20of%20yourself%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=inauthor:johann%20inauthor:zimmermann%20%22the%20more%20you%20speak%20of%20yourself%22&f=false| <br class="br">Context: The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie; say but little, 'twill scarcely gain belief; so strong are partiality and envy.
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 226]
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
On José Mourinho, (November 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4398238.stm <br class="br">Context: He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Context: The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment. Nonetheless, the human situation is so, and this is why I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive — and there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive. That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence.
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
29 October 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/29053579357 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy <br class="br">Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity