Advancing Quote by George Henry Lewes

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend…

— Henry David Thoreau

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience…

— Baruch Spinoza

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man…

— Abraham Lincoln

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

— Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience…

— Baruch Spinoza

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

— Anonymous

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he…

— Winston Churchill

Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot…

— Oliver Cromwell

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never…

— Luther Standing Bear

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it.…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

— Maurice Switzer

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

— Pindar