Quotes About Silence

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

The less said the better.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I'm exhausted from not talking.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time.

Better silent than stupid.