Answers Quote by Plutarch

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

— Plutarch

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

— Charles Caleb Colton

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

— Ivan Panin

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence…

— Lewis Carroll

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

— Bernard De Bonnard

Silence is the virtue of fools.

— Francis Bacon

“After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems preferable to…

— Josemaría Escrivá

Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain…

— William Hazlitt

“The answer to a fool is silence. (Proverb)”

— Idries Shah

“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly”

— benjamin franklin

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of…

— Thomas Carlyle