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

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Your silence will not protect you.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.