Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler – Silence
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It make us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
Deepak Chopra – Silence, Mind
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
George Eliot – Speech, Silence
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire – Silence
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Henry David Thoreau – Silence
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword
Samuel Johnson – Silence, Word
A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy – Silence
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill – Silence, Power
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Cicero – Silence, conversation
The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
