1. Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

- Pythagoras

2. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

- Mark Twain

3. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

- Amit Ray

4. Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

- Mahatma Gandhi

5. The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

- Simon Van Booy

6. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

- Abraham Lincoln

7. Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.

- Kathryn L. Nelson

8. Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands.

- Pico Lyer

9. The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know; it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge.

- Don Miguel Ruiz

10. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

- Karen Marie Moning

11. In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.

- Mahatma Gandhi

12. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

- George Eliot

13. Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.

- Rumi

15. Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

- Mark Helprin

16. Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

- George Henry Lewes

17. In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

- Rumi

18. Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.

- Tom Ford

19. The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes.

- Rick Rubin

20. Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

- Thomas Carlyle

21. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

- Mark Twain

22. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

- Thomas Carlyle

23. Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

- Eckhart Tolle

24. Silence gives us space to process our experiences and soak in our surroundings.

- Cati Vanden Breul

25. I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

- Albert Einstein

26. I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

27. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

28. My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

29. Listen to silence. It has so much to say.

- Rumi

30. If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you’ll be surprised what goes through your head.

- Sandra Bullock

31. Silence about a thing just magnifies it.

- Tennessee Williams

32. Hope will never be silent.

- Harvey Milk

33. Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

- Julius Lester

34. Withdraw into yourself, perceive there a silence as old as being, even older.

- Emil Cioran

35. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

- Benjamin Franklin

36. Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

- Charles Caleb Colton

37. A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.

- Shannon L. Alder

38. Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

39. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

- Aldous Huxley

40. Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries.

- Wayne Dyer

41. Sound is our mind, silence is our being.

- Osho

42. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

- Josh Billinngs

43. The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

- William Shakespeare

44. An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

- Walter Bagehot

45. The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

- Euripides

46. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

- Charles de Gaulle

47. Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

- Samuel Johnson

48. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

49. Quieting your mind is the doorway to a peaceful soul.

- Clyde Lee Denis

50. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

- Marian Wright Edelman

51. Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work.

- Les Brown

52. In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

53. Your very silence shows you agree.

- Euripides

54. Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

55. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

- Bob Dylan

56. I was quiet, but I was not blind.

- Jane Austen

57. Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

58. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

59. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

- Cato The Elder

60. Silence is exhilarating at first – as noise is – but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

- Edward Hoagland

61. Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

- German Proverb

62. Work hard in silence, let your success make the noise.

- Frank Ocean

63. Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

- Socrates

64. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

- Bertrand Russell

65. It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

- Seneca, The Elder

66. When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise.

- Elizabeth Eulberg

67. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

- Francis Beaumont

68. A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

- Pythagoras

69. The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.

- Naval Ravikant

70. Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.

- John Boyle O’Reilly

71. By silence, I hear other men’s imperfections and conceal my own.

- Citium Zeno

72. Silence is a source of great strength.

- Lao Tzu

73. We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

- Susann L. Taylor

74. Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

- Myrtle Reed

75. Silence is better than unmeaning words.

- Pythagoras

76. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

- Leonardo da Vinci

77. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

78. Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

- Henry David Thoreau

79. To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about.

- Alan Watts

80. If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

- Carol Bartz

81. The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

- Edgar Allan Poe

82. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

- Sri Chinmoy

83. Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

84. Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

- Phyllis McGinley

85. Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

- Buddha

86. If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

- Albert Einstein

87. When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

- Ansel Adams

88. Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

- Epictetus

89. Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

90. Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

91. The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

- Eckhart Tolle

92. Quiet people always know more than they seem.

- Criss Jami

93. As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

- Benjamin Franklin

94. Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot.

- Jack Kerouac

95. Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.

- Mandy Hale

96. Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

97. The space, the gaps, the pauses, the silence – those things that allow us to regenerate and recharge – had all but disappeared in my own life and in the lives of so many I knew.

- Arianna Huffington

98. A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

- Emile M. Cioran

99. Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

- Lance Morrow

100. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

- Stephen Cbosky

101. Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

- George Bernard Shaw

102. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

- Blaise Pascal

103. We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martgin Luther King, Jr.

104. It’s important to have quiet time and isolation.

- John Burnside

105. Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

- Deepak Chopra

106. Silence is the eternal duty of man.

- Thomas Carlyle

107. External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

- Ram Dass

108. Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

109. Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

- Hans Margolius

110. Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

- W. S. Merwin

111. All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

- Patrick Lindsay

112. Silence, healing.

- Heraclitus

113. If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.

- Federico Fellini

114. In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

- Meister Eckhart

115. Nothing is more useful than silence.

- Menander

116. Deep rivers run quiet.

- Haruki Murakami

117. Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

- Robert Adams

118. Silence is more musical than any song.

- Christina Rossetti

119. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

- Mother Teresa

120. Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

- Charlotte Bront?

121. Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

- James Stephens

122. Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths.

- Macrina Wiederkehr

123. If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.

- Pythagoras

124. The quiet mind is richer than a crown.

- Robert Greene

125. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.

- Thomas Carlyle

126. Within each of us, there is silence. A silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

- Gunilla Norris

127. The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

- Clarice Lispector

128. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

- Soren Kierkegaard

129. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

- Helen Keller

130. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

- Marcus Aurelius

131. When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the silence.

- Anthony de Mello

132. Real action is in silent moments.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

133. A quiet mind cureth all.

- Robert Burton

134. As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

- Albert Einstein

135. It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

- Alex Trebek

136. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

137. One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

- Virginia Woolf

138. A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

- Dante Alighieri

139. Silence is safer than speech.

- Epictetus

140. Silence is sometimes the best answer.

- Dalai Lama

141. Let silence take you to the core of life.

- Rumi

142. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

- Susan Sontag

143. Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

- Iain Duncan Smith

144. Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

- Muhammad Ali

145. The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion.

- Kapil Gupta

146. The truth hurts, but silence kills.

- Mark Twain

147. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

- Elbert Hubbard

148. Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

- Craig Bruce

149. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

- Chaim Potok

150. Never be bullied into silence.

- Harvey Fierstein

151. Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

- Confucius

152. I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

- Publilius Syrus

153. Take time to be quiet.

- Zig Ziglar

154. A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.

- Plutarch

155. Noise: a stench in the ear.

- Ambrose Bierce

156. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

- Charles Caleb Colton

157. A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

- Rumi

158. In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

- Henry David Thoreau

159. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

160. It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

- Victor Hugo

161. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martgin Luther King, Jr.

162. Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

- Gordon Hempton

163. Silence is the wit of fools.

- Anatole France

164. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions.

- Elbert Hubbard

165. Quiet people have the loudest minds.

- Stephen Hawking

166. Simply wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you.

- Franz Kafka

167. You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

- Sathya Sai Baba

168. If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

- Emily Bronte

169. Silence is also a conversation.

- Ramana Maharshi

170. It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.

- Thomas Merton

171. Silence is so freaking loud.

- Sarah Dessen

172. Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

- Norman Vincent Peale

173. Silence is the virtue of fools.

- Francis Bacon

174. Speech is silver, silence is golden.

- Thomas Carlyle

175. In the silence behind what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long.

- Andreas Fransson

176. When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.

- Henry J. Kaiser

177. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

- Mother Teresa

178. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

179. A man is known by the silence he keeps.

- Oliver Hereford

180. Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts.

- José Rodrigues Miguéis

181. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

- Chaim Potok

182. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

183. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

184. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

- Napoleon Hill

185. I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

- Aeschylus

186. Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

- William S. Burroughs

187. Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

- Nicholas Sparks

188. Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

- Helen Keller

189. Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.

- Aeschylus

190. Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

191. If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

- John Bunyan