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Quotations about silence

Abraham LincolnBetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

 - Abraham Lincoln

Tags:   fool  silence  speak  

Robert FrostNever be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

 - Robert Frost

Tags:   bully  silence  victim  

Elbert HubbardHe who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

 - Elbert Hubbard

Tags:   silence  understanding  words  

Jiddu KrishnamurtiSilence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

 - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tags:   silence  

Elisabeth Kübler-RossThere is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Tags:   garden  peace  silence  

William HazlittObstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt for our company; and it is the more provoking, as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it - whether humility or pride.

 - William Hazlitt

Tags:   humility  pride  silence  

Martin Luther KingOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

 - Martin Luther King

Tags:   inspiration  silence  

Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

 - Haile Selassie

Tags:   evil  inaction  indifference  justice  silence  

Thomas CarlysleUnder all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

 - Thomas Carlysle

Tags:   eternity  quiet  silence  speech  time  

Louis BrandeisThose who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

 - Louis Brandeis

Tags:   freedom  silence  speech  

Elie WieselTake sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

 - Elie Wiesel

Tags:   neutrality  oppression  silence