Silence Is Golden Quotes

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2011

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• Speech is silver, silence is golden.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Gold, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

  Xenocrates

  Inspirational, Witty, Powerful

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  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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Relationship, Uplifting

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Silence is the garden of thought.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Garden, Silence, Silence Is

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• Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Silence, Soul, Sabbath

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 20, 2013

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  Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expression, Perfect, Silence

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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• Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

  Ralph C. Smedley

  Inspirational, Success, Respect

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  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Silence, Doe, Speak

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• I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Philosophy, Desire, Noise

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• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

  Josh Billings

  Communication, Anger, Parenting

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

  John Tillotson

  Relationship, People, Silence

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.195

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

  Seneca the Elder

  Silence, Speech, Great Things

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• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

  John Keats

  Time, Silence, Speech

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• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149

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• Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Self

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

  Saadi

  Ignorance, Men, Silence

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.155, Innovations and Information

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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

  Edith Sitwell

  Funny, Music, Reading

  Reader's Digest, Volume 111, No. 666, October 1977.

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• In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

  Meister Eckhart

  Integrity, Men, Silence

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• Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

  Max Picard

  Change, Philosophy, Loss

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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