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Silent Quotes

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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

Authors on Silent Quotes: Rumi Mehmet Murat Ildan Marcus Tullius Cicero Seneca the Younger Publilius Syrus Mason Cooley Cassandra Clare Blaise Pascal William Wordsworth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mahatma Gandhi Confucius Lucy Maud Montgomery Sarah MacLean Rush Limbaugh George Herbert Malala Yousafzai Ludwig Wittgenstein Eckhart Tolle Plutarch Elie Wiesel Rick Warren Abraham Lincoln Francois de La Rochefoucauld Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Donald Trump Thomas Jefferson Jiddu Krishnamurti Rachel Caine Ovid Khalil Gibran Oliver Goldsmith Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart
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

18.
It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.
Ignatius of Antioch

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

21.
When your silent, people recognize your greatness.
Jordan Burroughs

22.
Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.
Max Horkheimer

23.
Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.
John Dee

24.
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
Denis Waitley

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

27.
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

39.
Hope is never silent.
Harvey Milk

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

47.
All the great pleasures of life are silent.
Georges Clemenceau

48.
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
George Whitefield

49.
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
Peter Wessel Zapffe

50.
Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.
Charlton Heston