Quotes About Remaining Silent

#1. Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Aesop

#2. You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

Simone Elkeles

#3. Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?

Anonymous

#7. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

#9. I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those who would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

Malalai Joya

#10. I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

Robert Herjavec

#11. I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.

Russell Banks

#12. Never tell your problems to anyone ... 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Lou Holtz

#13. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. 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

#15. Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#16. The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Richard Yates

#18. 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

#19. Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.

Dale Carnegie

#20. You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.
- Breeze

Brandon Sanderson

#21. There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Elizabeth Kostova

#22. If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

#23. New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

Joanna Southcott

#24. Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Jodi Picoult

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

#28. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

#29. Sometimes remaining silent is giving support to the things we need to change.

Emma Paul

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

Dalai Lama

#31. Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining silent for billions of years somewhere outside our universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. I don't think ... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll

#33. You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.

Arthur Miller

#34. Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.

Soren Kierkegaard

#35. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

#36. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Brian Tracy