(669 quotes found)
“As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not speak unless you can improve the silence”
Proverb
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
Josh Billings
“Silence is also speech”
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
Ansel Adams
“There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence”
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Be silent, or say something better than silence”
German Proverb
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