Quotes About Silence

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

A lion never roars after a kill.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.

A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.