- It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
– Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD)
- “I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
– Xenocrates (396 – 314 B.C.)
- “Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.”
– Proverbs 10:19
- “Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”
– Confucius (551 B.C. – 479 B.C.)
- You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
– Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
- “Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
– George Eliot (1819 – 1880)
- “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
– Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810 – 1889)
- “Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
– Josh Billings (1818 – 1885)
- “In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.”
– Meister Eckhart (1260 – 1328)
- “It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
– Pythagoras (582 B.C. – 507 B.C.)
- “There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”
– Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
- “Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.”
– Proverbs 29:20
- “For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
– James 3: 7-8
