Dhammapada · 19.13

Na monena munī hoti, mūḷharūpo aviddasu;Yo ca tulaṃva paggayha, varamādāya paṇḍito.

Na monena muni hoti, mulharupo aviddasu; Yo ca tulamva paggayha, varamadaya pandito.

One is not a sage by mere silence, if foolish and ignorant. The wise one, as if holding up a scale, takes up the best.

— Dhammapada 19.13

Source: Pali text from the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Pali Canon (oldest extant Buddhist scripture, compiled c. 3rd century BCE). Public-domain English readings drawn from F. Max Müller's translation in Sacred Books of the East, Vol X (1881) and the Buddhist Publication Society's freely-licensed Acharya Buddharakkhita rendering.