Quotes About Silence

Sometimes, silence has a power that can never defeated.

We do not need to face every issue with retractation. Justice resides quietly in the seat of power.

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.

Between closed lips no fly can pass.

Painful recollections are always of the dead. And the dead decompose rapidly, and there remains even in the proximity of their tombs nothing but the beauty of nature, silence, the purity of air.

A good listener is a silent flatterer

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.

A fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak.

Don't talk too much, because your ignorance is greater than your knowledge.

No news is good news

Thus I by my loquacious tongue From the heaven of silence am led Into perils unknown and dark. Not as Peter, disciple true, Confident in his virtue and faith, I am as one whose unnumbered sins Have shipwrecked on the rolling seas.… How easily can I be shipwrecked, One untaught in seafaring arts, Unless you, almighty Christ, Stretch forth your hand with help divine. (How Easily Can I Be Shipwrecked, Contra Symmachum)

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Best lesson learnt - Silence is the greatest source of my Strength.

Life becomes what we see everyday in silence during meditation practice. Internal happiness, strength and abundance shines externally.

Be silent, or say something better than silence.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.