Silence For Ignorance Quotes

#1. Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dalai Lama

#2. Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity

Josh Stern

#3. It's going to be okay, I told her, even though I was pretty sure we were all going to be skewered on L'Occhio silver daggers any minute now.

Rachel Hawkins

#4. Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Barack Obama, Sr.

#5. It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

Auliq Ice

#6. You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman.
Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.

Philip Roth

#7. I abstain from the people who consider insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. And I abstain from those who consider chatter wisdom and silence ignorance.

Kahlil Gibran

#8. Contentment is not a natural propensity of man.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Such is our tragedy. We want something, and we keep asking for something else.

Anonymous

#10. I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

#11. You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and cannot give them a name.

Thomas Ligotti

#12. If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

D.T. Suzuki

#13. I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

Amanda Seyfried

#14. Jessie Kay had once briefly considered thinking about exercising along with Monica's video. Then she'd found a bag of Kit Kat Minis and the insane idea went back to hell where it belonged.

Gena Showalter

#15. To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#16. I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

David Mamet

#17. The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

Soroosh Shahrivar

#18. If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.

David Bosch

#19. 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

#20. By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.

Philip Shepherd

#21. There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Fernand Braudel

#22. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Benito Mussolini

#23. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

T. S. Eliot

#24. my antidote to Black Swans is precisely to be noncommoditized in my thinking. But

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool's best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.

Carlos Wallace

#26. but sometimes you just need that visceral affirmation that the people you love are all right, that they're just there in front of you. Close enough to touch.

Dot Hutchison

#27. A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

Anne Taylor Fleming

#28. Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Amelia Barr

#29. Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Saadi

#30. The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach

Franz Stampfl

#31. The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.

Garland Waller

#32. Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.

Christabel Pankhurst

#33. Lead only if no one is following.

Marty Rubin

#34. Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

Jeanette Winterson

#35. I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will last my lifetime.

Simone Elkeles