James Franco

There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

American Actor

Max Weber

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

German Economist

Ann Reinking

Fosse would say that it's important to trust silence. He very much liked the use of the tacit, or silent, count, where nothing is happening. He also liked percussion. His is a world of angular movement and mystery, quiet, semi-taciturn and percussive.

American Actress

Jenna Wortham

We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.

American Journalist

Olga Tokarczuk

Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them. This tacit consent has demoralized weakened minds.

Polish Writer

Katie Hafner

Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design.

Karl Kraus

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Austrian Writer

Pierre Bourdieu

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

French Sociologist

Steven Pinker

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Canadian Scientist

Julien Baker

Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.

American Musician

Tacit often describes agreements made without words, just by actions or body language.

Nonverbal Agreement

People might share a tacit belief or opinion without discussing it.

Silent Consensus

Tacit can refer to hints or cues that suggest something without saying it.

Subtle Implications

Use tacit when you mean someone expresses something indirectly, not openly.

Indirect Expression

In legal settings, tacit means the law assumes something even if it's not written.

Legal Presumption

Tacit in legal terms can imply assumed consent if someone doesn't object.

Assumed Compliance

 what the tacit rules of marriage are. And everyone should understand those rules, because doing so can help us build better marriages from the beginning.