The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.
Naval Ravikant
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
David Steinberg
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
Julius Lester
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Honoré de Balzac
Inner silence is the mother of all talents.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the silence.
Anthony de Mello
Human beings can’t bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.
Pascal Mercier
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati Roy
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
Lawrence Durrell
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Anthony de Mello
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Thomas Carlyle
I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.
Nadezhda Mandelstam
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Dejan Stojanovic
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth.
Maxime Lagacé
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Criss Jami
Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.
Sivananda
Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for – you.
Shannon L. Alder
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Within each of us, there is silence. A silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.
Gunilla Norris
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe
By silence, I hear other men’s imperfections and conceal my own.
Citium Zeno
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope will never be silent.
Harvey Milk
One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.
Robert Greene
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
Pythagoras
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
Bob Dylan
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
Martin Luther King Jr
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Epictetus
The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte
Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
Tom Ford
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
Chaim Potok
Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
Anonymous
Listen to silence. It has so much to say.
Rumi
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton