Communication Quote by Isocrates

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Vaslav Nijinsky

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

— Lord Acton

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

— Plutarch

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

— Thomas Carlyle

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

— Confucius

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

— Anonymous

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

— Ramana Maharshi

SPEAK only when you feel your words are better than the SILENCE

— Anonymous

“There are occasions when the silence speaks, and speech is silent”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence

— Proverb

Silence is safer than speech.

— Epictetus