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

20.

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

Samuel Johnson

21.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

24.

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

25.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

26.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

27.

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

Dante Alighieri

28.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

29.

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

Beckett, Samuel

30.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

31.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

32.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

33.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

35.

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

Proverb, Arabian

36.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

37.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

41.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

44.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

45.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

46.

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

William Penn

47.

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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

50.

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