27 Inspiring Quotes about
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
(Publilius Syrus)
To refrain from speech
Ever say things you wish you could take back? The easy solution: don’t say it in the first place. An ill-considered word lives forever.
(Scott Anderson)
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
(Calvin Coolidge)
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
(Sam Rayburn)
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
(Muhammed Ali)
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
(Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
(Pythagoras)
Quick in action, cautious in speech
(Confucius)
Silence is a true friend that never betrays.
(Confucius)
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
(Publilius Syrus)
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
(Robert Greenleaf)
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
(Emily Dickinson)
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
(Charles Caleb Colton)
… I know where speech is proper, and where silence.
(Aeschylus)
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
(Confucius)
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
(Victor Hugo)
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
(Alan Watts)
No person is a friend who demands your silence…
(Alice Walker)
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
(Mark Twain)
Work hard in silence, let your success make the noise.
(Frank Ocean)
It’s hard to put a foot in a shut mouth.
(Ken Alstad)
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
(Susan Sontag)
The more you know the less you need to say.
(Jim Rohn)
The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent.’
(Alfred Brendel)
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
(Henry J. Kaiser)
Silence is a text easy to misread.
(A.A. Attanasio)
