Demand Quote by PLO Lumumba

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

— Maimonides

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

— Patricia A. McKillip

The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to break the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of…

— Anonymous

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately…

— Myrtle Reed

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

— Benjamin Franklin

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

— William Penn

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

— David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that…

— Josh Billings

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has…

— Azar Nafisi

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

— Tariq Ramadan