Reserved Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reserved Silent
“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and — Snow Prince Copy Share Image
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. — Maurice Switzer Copy Share Image
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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