1.
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
Ramana Maharshi
2.
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
Abraham Lincoln
It is a transgression to remain mute when it is your obligation to object.
3.
Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.
PLO Lumumba
At times, sagacity necessitates that we withhold speech. This is one of those occasions.
4.
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
Soren Kierkegaard
I perceived I had dwindled speech, until at last, I was noiseless, and started to hear. In the quietude, I noticed the utterance of the Divine.
5.
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you keep quiet about your suffering, they'll murder you and claim it was a pleasure.
6.
Those who remain silent are responsible.
Edith Stein
Those who keep quiet bear culpability.
7.
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
Howard Thurman
Utter not a sound; there is no boundary to the strength that can be unleashed through you.
8.
Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Keep your confidential information guarded, even from your dearest companion; acquire the knack of maintaining quiet.
9.
Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
William Wilberforce
It should not be remembered that I was inactive when they required me.
10.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Keep quiet and stay out of it if you are not willing to take action.
11.
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Passive approval of wickedness is more destructive than the wickedness itself. It is a quiet approval that permits evil to be seen as ordinary in our culture.
12.
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
Rachel Carson
Realizing the facts, remaining silent would render me without solace in the future.
13.
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
Pythagoras
It is wiser to remain quiet rather than argue with the uninformed.
14.
I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
Abraham Isaac Kook
15.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Toni Morrison
16.
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!
Eliphas Levi
17.
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
Elie Wiesel
19.
I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.
Sadegh Hedayat
20.
The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen.
Rumi
22.
Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.
Max Horkheimer
23.
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
Denis Waitley
24.
Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.
John Dee
25.
I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
Ron White
26.
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Malala Yousafzai
28.
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
Ravi Zacharias
29.
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca the Younger
30.
History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
J. Edwin Orr
31.
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.
Mary Pickford
32.
Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.
Joel S. Goldsmith
33.
Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.
Brian Houston
34.
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
Werner Heisenberg
35.
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
Agnetha Faltskog
36.
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.
Thiruvalluvar
37.
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
Andrei Tarkovsky
38.
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
Teresa of Avila
40.
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
Dale Spender
41.
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
Wole Soyinka
42.
All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.
Mary Travers
43.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus
44.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
Thomas Browne
45.
Be silent in a group of people
See what they reveal to you.
Yoko Ono
46.
Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.
John Denver
49.
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
George Whitefield