No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fairplay will bring more friends; benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence; service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Speech is oft repented, silence never
Danish Proverb
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is golden; speech is silver
American Proverb
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
Plutarch
I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C.S. Lewis
A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.
Joseph Addison
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
Charles Eliot Norton
I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C.S. Lewis
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
Mother Teresa
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann