Silence Quotes

Silence gives consent.
- Pope Boniface VIII

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
- Meister Eckhart

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
- Mark Helprin

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.
- Madison Julius Cawein

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
- Kin Hubbard

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say - but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.
- Jonathan Katz

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
- Johannes Tauler

The more you know the less you need to say.
- Jim Rohn

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
- Ibn Gabirol