Silence Quotes

Silence is a still noise.

American proverb

A still tongue makes a wise head.

English Proverb

There is no music without silence.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Thomas Carlyle

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Mary Cantwell

Speech is silver; silence is gold.

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the fence around wisdom.

Talmud

Silence is a true friend which never betrays.

Confucius

He that knows how to speak, knows also when to be silent.

Archimedes

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

Publius Syrus

Be silent, where reason is not regarded, and truth is distasteful.

T Fuller

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

De Sales

It requires a great deal of mind to be silent at the right time and place.

Mary Ferrier

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.

Benjamin Franklin

Silence is the solemn temple, with its roof high as the heavens, for the human soul to retire into, to anybody.

J Lockman

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment; it is a great virtue; it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin.

W Penn