Silence Quotes

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. (Publilius Syrus)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. View quote
Xenocrates
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. View quote
Josh Billings
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. View quote
Epictetus
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. View quote
Plutarch
Silence is a source of great strength. View quote
Laozi
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. View quote
Confucius
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. (Thomas Carlyle)
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. View quote
Pythagoras
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. View quote
Pythagoras
Silence is better than unmeaning words. View quote
Pythagoras
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. View quote
Patañjali
Silence is the virtue of fools. View quote
Francis Bacon
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Great souls endure in silence. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. View quote
Dorothy Dix
Silence is the one great art of conversation. View quote
William Hazlitt
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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