Quotes About Silence

Never complain and never explain.

When will I see you again?" I asked. On these occasions, there's nothing original to say

Silence is the mother of truth

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Speak little, do much.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.

If what most men admire they would despise, It would look as if mankind were growing wise. He that would live in peace and ease Must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Better to be thought fhe fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

The girl remains on the ground. He looks at her and she looks at him and the air feels at once static and loaded, as if there is some kind of undersound his ear can't quite decipher. Like after a bell rings. That's how it is between them. There is something celestial about her, her skin a pale color, but a paleness of the softest gray-white imaginable, as if she had been soaking for years in a bath of moonlight.

Religious rectitude is the sanctuary of the intellectually reticent

kein Rausch mehr, nur noch Rauschen.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.