• Substance_P@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I always think of the saying “it is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it”, this is a simplified version.

    The original quote is “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt” and it is often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but that part is debatable.

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      1 year ago

      I remember a related version from when I took Latin in school. “Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses” (if you had remained silent, you would have remained a philosopher)