Difficult Quote by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

— Virginia Woolf

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

— Vaslav Nijinsky

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

— Dominique Bouhours

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they…

— Christoph Martin Wieland

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us…

— Alice Hoffman

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

— Thomas Keating

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

— Fred Rogers

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

— Ajahn Brahm

Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality: opening your mind enough to find what the end…

— Monks Of New Skete

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

— Patricia A. McKillip

To be silent is to be complicit.

— Richard Edelman