Top 34 Silent Wise Quotes
#2. To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
Richard Baxter
#3. Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
Anonymous
#4. Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
Homer
#5. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Anonymous
#6. A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson
#7. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
Anonymous
#9. Space is a windless silent place, just like the mind of a wise man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. You're a dirty bastard"
"Are you complaining?"
"No
Moira Rogers
#13. Jumping jacks are easier to do than crawling jacks.
Demetri Martin
#14. I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.
Charlie Sheen
#15. Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
Eckhart Tolle
#16. A man shall not boast of his keenness of mind, But keep it close in his breast; To the silent and wise does ill come seldom
Anonymous
#18. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
#20. I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to.
Brandon T. Jackson
#21. When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Frank Herbert
#22. And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!
Rudyard Kipling
#25. A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare
To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,
In Riddles, and Affaires of death;
And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close contriuer of all harmes,
Was neuer call'd to beare my part,
Or shew the glory of our Art?
William Shakespeare
#27. The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
Algernon Blackwood
#28. The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
Neil Gaiman
#29. Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#30. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
#31. It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
George Henry Lewes
#32. Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.
Jeffrey Archer
#33. Men shouldn't fear or hate what they do not know but study it and share it instead. It is both an act of selfishness and cruelty to seek for the destruction of wisdom and the wise, but also to keep silent when witnessing it happening.
Daniel Marques
#34. Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
Barack Obama
