Browsing Topic Best Silent Quotes

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

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

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America — none, whatsoever.

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as is sophisticated militarization. These have been the most significant ingredients in the silent war.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Be thy sleep, Silent as night is, and as deep.

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

The great Islamic nation cannot … be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, ‘You do not have to remain silent anymore.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

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.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It’s either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there’s always a buzzing beneath you.