Top 45 Silence Wise Quotes
#2. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
Francis Quarles
#3. I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
William Shakespeare
#4. The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Baltasar Gracian
#5. To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson
Edward M. Hallowell
#6. The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.
Russell Lynes
#7. Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
Abdu'l- Baha
#11. Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence."
Rumi
#12. Euripides was wont to say, 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.
Plutarch
#13. Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as silence.
Michael J. Sullivan
#14. The tongue is a venomous serpent, which is why the wise cage it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. - 'twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this: - That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel. - THEOBALD.
William Shakespeare
#16. Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#17. If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
Ivan Panin
#19. Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. I don't belong in this world, I am merely a traveller passing through, I repudiate to silence my thought, because they fear my light.
Nikki Rowe
#21. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
Saint Basil
#22. Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
Alafair Burke
#23. Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne
#24. Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Plutarch
#25. I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#27. The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
Leo Strauss
#28. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
Bram Stoker
#29. We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
#32. Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#33. In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.
Anonymous
#34. Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#35. In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
#36. A wise man's questions surpass the answers of the fool, but the silence of the enlightened is divine. Meditation is the key.
J. Gabriel Gates
#37. A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.
Pythagoras
#38. Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: "Where does a wise man hide a leaf?" And the other answered: "In the forest.
G.K. Chesterton
#39. Walking in the night is a great blessing for the wise souls who are deeply in love with the silence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
Pope Boniface VIII
#41. It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.
Will Henry
#44. It is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
Mark Twain
#45. Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
Desiderius Erasmus
