Silent Quotes

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Fool, Doubt, Thought

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

End, Become, Matter

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Friend, Healing, Confusion

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

Fool, Doubt, Thought

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

Freedom, May, Away

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

Saying, Sometimes, Impression

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Far, Virtue, Concerned

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music, Cannot, Impossible

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

Strong, Often, Remained

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn

Hurt, Give, Try

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Human, Silence, Suffering

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, Service, Church

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

Power, Freedom, Violent

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud

Betrayal, May, Him

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

May, Hear, Gods

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran

Music, Work, Heart

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Career, Two, Else

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Marilyn Monroe

Often, Movie, Turn

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill

Men, Wise, Doubt

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin

Moon, Wolves, Nights

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
Roy Orbison

Dreams, Night, Eyes

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
Ron White

Ability, Remain

Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire

Language, Tears, Grief

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin

God, Truth, Coward

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Life, Truth, Fear

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund Burke

Good, Conscience, Tyranny

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire

Between, Deceive, Speaking

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot

Human, Two, Memories

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Mitt Romney

Words, Watch, Begin

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