Top 62 Quotes About Better To Be Silent
#1. It's better to be silent than to be a fool.
Harper Lee
#2. It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Voltaire
#3. Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Andre Gide
#4. It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
Pythagoras
#6. 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
#7. Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
James Boswell
#8. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.
Isocrates
#9. Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
Alain De Benoist
#10. Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and ultimate aims. It gives life and history no meaning or worth that is not canceled by time and death.
Will Durant
#11. When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
James E. Faust
#12. 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
#13. She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.
Carol Emshwiller
#14. To be honest with one's emotions is a thousand times better than to silent about what one doesn't feel.
Aporva Kala
#15. No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
Emil Cioran
#16. We'd better get there soon," said Corwin. "They're probably building new streets in Paris right this minute."
"What if I don't want to, being a lesbian?"
Corwin fell silent; after a while he spoke.
"So you think it might be permanent?
Louise Erdrich
#17. I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?
Clare Boylan
#18. 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
#19. It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.
Muhammad
#20. If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Honore De Balzac
#22. Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
Homer
#23. One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.
Alain De Benoist
#24. Well," Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen?" They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.
Rachel Caine
#25. On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.
Stella Gibbons
#26. She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#27. The perfection of that silent moment was somehow better than a million mouthfulls promising forever.
Jessica Gadziala
#28. 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
#30. real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#31. No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.
Dejan Stojanovic
#32. Taylor realized that he had better use the "L" word or this was going to go south pretty far, pretty fast.
Kenneth Eade
#33. 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
#35. I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
Denis Diderot
#36. Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.
Roxane Gay
#37. It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt.
Rami Belson
#38. I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
#39. That morning, lying with the woman I loved, a silent promise was formed in my head. I was going to be a better man for her, someone she deserved. No more flying off the handle. No more temper tantrums, or violent outbursts.
Jamie McGuire
#40. It is infinitely better to know when to stay silent than to know when to speak.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#41. Sadie and I locked eyes. We had a brief, silent exchange, something like:
You ask her.
No, you.
Of course Sadie's better at giving dirty looks, so I lost the contest.
Rick Riordan
#42. it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt'.
Craig Alanson
#43. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
Saint Francis De Sales
#44. If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Plutarch
#45. The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
Elizabeth Coleman
#46. There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.
Anthony Liccione
#47. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde
#49. Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.
Abraham Lincoln
#50. If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
Confucius
#51. A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
Benton MacKaye
#52. When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
Robin Leach
#53. You may not need to tell me, I can hear your song better when your voice is silent and your heart is singing.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.
C.J. Redwine
#55. Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
#56. It is better for a man to remain silent and appear a fool, then to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Clemens
#57. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
#58. We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.
David Levithan
#59. she says, her words tinged with sorrow. I stop, go and sit on the edge of her bed. We sit, silent. "I promise, I'm right here and I won't leave you." I let her feel my presence. No one could describe Alzheimer's better than this. She's lost inside her own mind. How cruel. How fucking cruel.
Carol O'Dell
#60. She cursed under her breath. Eddie watched the EBs react, the younger ones recoiling with silent gasps.
"Better watch your language. There are children present. I think you're freaking them out."
"Sure, I'm the one freaking them out.
Hunter Shea
#61. It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Maurice Switzer
#62. And when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
Audre Lorde
