Effects Quote by Lord Chesterfield

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances…

— Abigail McCarthy

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,

— Max Picard

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

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

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

— Baruch Spinoza

Male silence is not the same as listening

— Gloria Steinem

Silence gives the proper grace to women

— Sophocles

Silence is a power only in the hands of enlightened minds, but weakness in the mind of helpless persons.

— Anuj Somany

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

— Geoffrey Madan

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

— Jules Michelet

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud,…

— Charles de Gaulle