"Better to remain silent and appear foolish than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" (Oscar Wilde)

One more reason to learn to listen. And not to fight to appear to be at the top of the class. Without actually being one.

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Better to remain silent and appear stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt Oscar Wilde
How often do we talk nonsense, pointlessly, wasting our breath? One reason for this attitude, which can border on compulsion, is the desire to demonstrate our intelligence at all costs, believing we possess it. Yet Oscar Wilde's withering sarcasm will tell us that it's decidedly better to do the opposite. To remain silent, and perhaps be thought of as stupid, than to talk nonsense and show that we truly are.

To be silent means to listen. Plutarch reminded us that it is no coincidence that man has one mouth and two ears. We must listen more than we speak. Sometimes, at random. Today, narcissism and the idea of ​​feeling at the center of the universe pushes people to do the opposite.

Talking too much is boring. Notice this: people who really have something to say are those gifted with the gift of synthesis. They don't overdo it, and they value words. Furthermore, they recognize the reciprocity of a dialogue, and the uselessness, except in the theatre, of monologues.

Intelligence doesn't show itself. Intelligence does not need to be on display, its casing is the sobrietyAnd intelligence doesn't translate into the completely unfounded idea of ​​having superior thoughts. Let's start from the bottom: we're all average. If not below.

The hidden stupidity. And instead, stupidity tries to hide behind the corner of an abundance of words. A futile effort: whoever is stupid, the more he talks the more he appears to be so.

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