Quotes About Silence

Better to say nothing at all, rather than something you'll regret.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Let one of your first decisions be to keep a closed mouth and open ears and eyes

Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person, your exact stock of knowledge, or your LACK of it! Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person your exact stock of knowledge or your lack of it! Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. p159

Keep your eyes and ears wide open—and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision. Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

Keep your eyes and ears wide open— and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision.

Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.

Don't complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.

If you need to listen to music while walking, don't walk; and please don't listen to music.

Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio (only when the words outperform silence). These

You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence. –

In their intense meditation the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them and they listen reverently while in the street outside the people hear nothing at all.

Characteristically, Samuelson intimidated those who questioned his techniques with the statement "Those who can, do science, others do methodology." If you knew math, you could "do science." This is reminiscent of psychoanalysts who silence their critics by accusing them of having trouble with their fathers.

Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio: only when the words outperform silence

My problem is that I am not rational and I am extremely prone to drown in randomness and to incur emotional torture. I am aware of my need to ruminate on park benches and in cafés away from information, but I can only do so if I am somewhat deprived of it. My sole advantage in life is that I know some of my weaknesses, mostly that I am incapable of taming my emotions facing news and incapable of seeing a performance with a clear head. Silence is far better.

charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed.

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe direcly, cannot capture in human language or within the narrow human concepts that are available to us.

But to do things right, they ought to learn to keep silent in the absence of news of significance.

Silent evidence is what events use to conceal their own randomness, particularly the Black Swan type of randomness.

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe directly