Silence Quotes
These are some of the best 'Silence' quotations and sayings.
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
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A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.
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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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A silent man is easily reputed wise. The unknown is always wonderful. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint.
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As men of sense and genius say much in few words, so on the other hand the weak and foolish speak much and say little.
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Better silent than stupid.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.
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Euripides was wont to say that silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous.
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Fellows who have no tongues are often all eyes and ears.
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He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace.
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He has the gift of quiet.
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He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.
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He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us, and who loves us in our silence, has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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