“Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly.”
William Blake
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.”
Voltaire
“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over”
Sappho
“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
Winston Churchill
