Silence is a text easy to misread.
—A. A. Attanasio
Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
—Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
—Abraham Lincoln
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
—Ausonius
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
—Blaise Pascal
Oppression can only survive through silence.
—Carmen de Monteflores
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
—Cato the Elder
Silence is more musical than any song.
—Christina Rossetti
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
—Dante Alighieri
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
—George Bernard Shaw
With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
—Horace
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
—John Tillotson
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
—Lynn Johnston
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
—Mahatma Gandhi