Silence Quotes
- I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
- In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. — Meister Eckhart
- Silence is more musical than any song. — Christina Rossetti
- A word is elegy to what it signifies. — Robert Hass
- My greatest weapon is mute prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi
- What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. — Baruch Spinoza
- Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace
- Words express neither objects nor ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar
- The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. — Jean Baudrillard
- What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life. — Henry David Thoreau
- Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
- Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. — Henry Adams
- As was his language so was his life. — Seneca the Younger
- If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. — Ashleigh Brilliant
- If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. — Karel Capek
- There were grammatical errors even in his silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- The eye tells what the tongue would hide. — Chief Joseph
- The silence of a wise man is always meaningful. — Leo Strauss
- Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert
- Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. — Benjamin Disraeli
- A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin
- I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. — Josh Billings