“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”Epictetus
Silence Quotes
71 FAMOUS QUOTES · SILENCE
Silence Quotes
Read 71 famous silence quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Silence is safer than speech.”Epictetus
“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”Che Guevara
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”Aldous Huxley
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
Kahlil Gibran
"Music is the space between the notes."
Claude Debussy
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."Aldous Huxley
"An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again."
Matsuo Basho
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
Robert Benchley
“For they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.”
The Bible (Mark 16:8)
"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."
Mother Teresa
"I know that He exists. Somewhere - in Silence."
Emily Dickinson
“Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.”Rabindranath Tagore
“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
Cicero
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Least said, soonest mended.”
English Proverb
“I do not believe architecture should speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind speak.”
Tadao Ando
“To me, buildings can have a beautiful silence that I associate with attributes such as composure, self-evidence, durability, presence, and integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well.”
Peter Zumthor
“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
George Eliot
“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”
Homer
“Be silent, or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
Pythagoras
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
Publilius Syrus
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Maurice Switzer
“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Thomas Carlyle