“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”Mahatma Gandhi
Silence Quotes
71 FAMOUS QUOTES · SILENCE
Silence Quotes
Read 71 famous silence quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Speech is silver, silence is golden.”
English Proverb
“Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.”Lao Tzu
“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.”Rabindranath Tagore
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”Will Rogers
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
Thomas Carlyle
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”
Mother Teresa
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body.”
William Penn
“In silence and quiet the devout soul makes progress.”
Thomas à Kempis
“Silence is a source of great strength.”Lao Tzu
“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.”
Pythagoras
“Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.”
Deepak Chopra
“Silence is golden.”
English Proverb
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Confucius
“Silence is God's first language.”
John of the Cross
“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”
The Dalai Lama
“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
Calvin Coolidge
“If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein