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

- Plutarch

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

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

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Katz, Jonathan

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

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

Bagehot, Walter

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Voltaire

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Arabian

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

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

Abraham Lincoln

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Beaumont, Francis

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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?

Richards, Edward Hersey

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

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