Silence Quotes

If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
- Hebrew Proverb

Great souls endure in silence.
- Friedrich Schiller

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
- Edward H Richards

Silence is argument carried on by other means.
- Che Guevara

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
- Charles Delint

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles De Gaulle

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
- Calvin Coolidge

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin

Silence is the mother of Truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli