Good practical intelligence. Why screech when there is no one to comfort you?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Practical wisdom suggests staying silent when there is no one to offer comfort.
- In plain terms
- If nobody can help you, it is better not to scream or complain.
- What can you take from it?
- Save your emotional outbursts for when they might actually help.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is silence the best response?
- How do you cope alone?
Another view
Suppression can lead to internal stress even if it seems practical.
More from Alice Borchardt
You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn't?' 'the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first pl…
Permalink to quote #32 One day she would be a formidable female, a creature to be reckoned with
Permalink to quote #34 It is human, I think, when we encounter the marvelous to try and bring away some of it with us
Permalink to quote #31
Related quotes
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capabl…
David HumeDavid Hume quote #1 Here profits not To tell the whole truth with clear face unveiled. Often is man's best wisdom to be silent.
PindarPindar quote #1 Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle quote #1