When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

16.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

18.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

20.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

21.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

22.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

23.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

24.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

25.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

28.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

29.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

30.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

31.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

32.

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

Engel, Silvan

33.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

34.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

35.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

36.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

37.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

38.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

40.

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.

Delint, Charles

41.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

42.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

43.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

44.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

47.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

48.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

49.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

50.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.