Quotes About Silence

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

A man is hid under his tongue.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

You don't gossip while your man is driving. You sit there quietly until you're about 5 minutes from your destination then you say, would you like some road head?

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

A dead man cannot bite.