If a word is worth a coin,
silence is worth two.
?Hebrew Proverb
The ideal man is his own best friend
and takes delight in privacy.
?Aristotle
A quiet mind cureth all.
?Robert Burton
I think the first virtue is to restrain
the tongue: he approaches nearest
to the Gods, who knows how to be
silent, even though he is in the right.
?Cato
The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in,
And to herself she gladly doth retire.
?Sir J Davies
In silence man can most readily
preserve his integrity.
?Meister Eckhart
Silence gives consent.
?Oliver Goldsmith
It is as important to cultivate your
silence power as your word power.
?William James
Since the general civilization of mankind,
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment
of the freedom of the people by gradual
and silent encroachments of those in power
than by violent and sudden usurpations.
?James Madison
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
?Robert L. Stevenson
Of every noble work the silent part
is best; of all expression,
that which cannot be expressed.
?W.W. Story
Because in the school of the Spirit
man learns wisdom through humility,
knowledge by forgetting, how to speak
by silence, how to live by dying.
?Johannes Tauler
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible
at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on--
there are divine things, well envelop'd;
I swear to you there are divine things
more beautiful than words can tell.
?Walt Whitman
He that would live in peace and
at ease, must not speak all he
knows, nor judge all he sees.
?Benjamin Franklin
