It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Ronald Reagan

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
Bob Marley

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Bob Marley

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac