Top 100 Be Silent Quotes
#1. All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak - and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#2. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
Alan Watts
#3. 13And Moses said to the people, g Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For h the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 i The LORD will fight for you, and you have only j to be silent.
Anonymous
#4. Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
Saint John Chrysostom
#5. Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid
#7. the Lord is in His holy temple; let everyone on earth be silent in His presence. t
Anonymous
#8. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
#9. If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.
Henry Van Dyke
#10. When the urge arises in your mind To feelings of desire or angry hate, Do not act! Be silent, do not speak! And like a log of wood be sure to stay.
Santideva
#11. Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#12. Where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.
Isabel Burton
#13. To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
Henry Miller
#14. That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be? "Maya?
Angie Thomas
#15. It was Martin Luther King who said, 'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.' That is why I felt I could not be silent today.
Ed West
#16. Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.
Samuel Beckett
#17. It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Voltaire
#18. So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#19. BARABAS: Things past recovery
Are hardly cur'd with exclamations.
Be silent, daughter; sufferance breeds ease,
And time may yield us an occasion,
Which on the sudden cannot serve the turn.
Christopher Marlowe
#20. Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
Rumi
#21. I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.
Meister Eckhart
#22. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?
Angie Thomas
#23. To speak or to be silent was equally an effort, for when they were silent they were keenly conscious of each other's presence, and yet words were either too trivial or too large.
Virginia Woolf
#24. Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.
Cornel West
#25. Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.
Elena Ferrante
#26. At the heart of the universe
is a musical note
If you care to be silent
you can hear it.
Gabriel Iqbal
#27. If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.
Vladimir Nabokov
#28. For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.
Samuel
#29. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
#30. It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
John Of The Cross
#31. It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
Ovid
#32. Discover your level of consciousness. Now be silent and transcend and transform your consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
#33. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato The Elder
#35. When problems come, remain calm in two cases. One when you know you can solve them so smile; second when you know you can't so be silent.
Vikrmn
#36. Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.
Mel White
#37. But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,
Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,
For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,
It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
Sara Teasdale
#38. The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!"
"I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.
P.W. Catanese
#39. We could be silent for a while because we'd
know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation.
Paulo Coelho
#40. When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She
Jonathan Odell
#42. He tried to picture her in battle, covered in gore and swinging a blade - would she be silent and barbarous or would she flit through the fray, making sarcastic comments as she casually dealt deathblows?
Bethany K. Lovell
#43. You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
George Whitefield
#44. The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.
Peter Camejo
#45. The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener - a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
Dale Carnegie
#46. This document and scores similar to it were at the foundation of cultural, political and social change throughout the ages. Secret brotherhoods with one credo: to know, to dare, to be silent.
Art Johnson
#47. Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Andre Gide
#48. If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.
Frank Pavone
#49. On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.
J.Z. Colby
#50. I will whisper secrets in your ears,
just nod yes and be silent.
A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this journey
Rumi
#51. A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#53. It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.
Ellis Peters
#54. He said it aloud, because there was no reason to be silent. "I am - undone. She has undone me."
And his hand closed around the glass slipper.
Eloisa James
#56. I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
Cate Blanchett
#57. The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.
Sercan Leylek
#58. I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.
Nalini Singh
#60. Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.
Anton Chekhov
#61. We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.
Adam Kokesh
#62. Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.
Ramana Maharshi
#63. It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
Pythagoras
#64. There's a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.
Jon Foreman
#65. Be silent now. Say fewer and fewer praise poems. Let yourself become living poetry.
Rumi
#66. I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
Carl Hilty
#67. God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond your creating will. Could ye CREATE a God? - Then, I pray you, be silent about all Gods! But ye could well create the Superman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.
Paul Of The Cross
#69. Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.
Rajneesh
#70. Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
James Stephens
#72. He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.
Jim Thompson
#73. That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#74. Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The song should never be silent, the dance never still, the laugh should sound like water which runs forever.
Richard Jefferies
#76. We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
William Arthur Ward
#77. Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
Pythagoras
#78. It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.
Anwar Ibrahim
#82. A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Bess Truman
#83. He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
Publilius Syrus
#84. One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised "better living through chemistry," dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.
Mark Hamilton Lytle
#86. One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
Virginia Woolf
#87. He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#88. They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.
Tupac Shakur
#89. If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.
Henri Nouwen
#91. I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
Susan Rice
#92. As the life and good fame of yonder man were in your hands there seemed no choice to me, save to be silent in accordance with your behest. Yet it was not without heavy misgivings that I thus bound myself, for, having cast off all duty towards other human beings, there remained a duty towards him,
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#93. May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.
Pope Francis
#94. The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.
Bryan Kest
#95. When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
Meister Eckhart
#96. Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
#98. If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.
Richard J. Foster
#99. To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Alphonsus Liguori
#100. Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.
Mark Frost
