Quotes on Silence Is Golden

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

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.

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.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.