Quotes About Silence

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

There are two important things for full success in life: 1. Don´t tell everything you know.

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.

This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.

Wenn die Menschen nur über das sprächen, was sie begreifen, dann würde es sehr still auf der Welt sein

El ignorante ataca con la boca. El sabio se defiende con el silencio.

Darkness promotes speech.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

The existence of the text is a silent existence, silent until the moment in which a reader reads it. Only when the able eye makes contact with the markings on the tablet does the text come to active life. All writing depends on the generosity of the reader.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.