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Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt; Better wear out than rust out
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court.
“The silent treatment is a way of responding to something upsetting, where you provide little to no verbal communication or where you ignore someone completely,” Mascardo tells Parade ...
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Do expect the other party to disagree with you. That's why you're here after all; you're in a dispute. Offering a rebuttal to their rebuttal and restating what you've already said is going to create more unnecessary reading for administrators.
We are simply physicians and nurses who cannot remain silent about what we saw in Gaza.” the letter said. Reporting contributed by Tala Alrajjal, Sam Fossum and Eugenia Ugrinovich.
Additionally, a vow of silence can be made to express a bold statement. This type may be to make a statement about issues such as child poverty.An example of this is the November 30th Vow of Silence for Free The Children, in which students in Canada take a 24-hour vow of silence to protest against poverty and child labour.
Further research regarding this area will more than likely help us to better understand employee silence, how it affects organizations, and how to reduce it. Future research should be devoted to the study of one's professional position in a company and whether this has any effect on the decision to remain silent.
Page from the 1901 edition of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–34) on which the proverb appears, marking its earliest usage in English. "Speech is silver, silence is golden" is a proverb extolling the value of silence over speech.