Quotes

Silence is the mother of Truth.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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

Great souls endure in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller

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

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

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
-Pope Boniface VIII

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
-Samuel Daniel

There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time.
-Thomas Campbell

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
-William Alexander

Silence is the virtue of fools.
-Francis Bacon

If A equals success, then the formula is, A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
-John Dryden

Speech is great, but silence is greater.
-Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
-Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

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

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
-Richard Flecknoe

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
-Silvan Engel

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
-Vittorio Alfieri

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
-William James

Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
-George Herbert

A quiet mind cureth all.
-Robert Burton

Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
-Thomas Carlyle

The silente man still suffers wrong.
-Unattributed Author

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
-Adelaide Crapsey

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

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

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

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

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

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Richard Flecknoe

The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.
-Sir J Davies

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
-W W Story

When they hold their tongues they cry out.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.
-Joseph Addison

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence is more eloquent than words.
-Thomas Carlyle

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
-Austin O Malley

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

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

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

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

Silence gives consent.
-Pope Boniface VIII

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-Robert L Stevenson

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-Sydney Smith

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can telWalt Whitmanl.
-Anonymous Author

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
-Charles Caleb Colton

A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
-John Dryden

Silence is a friend who will never betray.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together, that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
-Thomas Carlyle