Sometimes It's Better To Be Silent Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Harper Lee

#3. 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

#4. If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Confucius

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. It is better for a man to remain silent and appear a fool, then to open his mouth and remove all doubt.

Samuel Clemens

#12. Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Annie Besant

#13. Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.

C.J. Redwine

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt.

Rami Belson

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt'.

Craig Alanson

#27. 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

#28. It is infinitely better to know when to stay silent than to know when to speak.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#29. 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

#30. 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