Quotes about Silence

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Even the most voluptuous of fast-paced and lace-clad women cannot console the anguish of masculine tears blocked and cries muffled. Broken men try to mask their hurts behind empty emblems of success, but hidden behind those frail facades are screaming hearts bound in a forced silence.

It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.