Silence Is Golden Quotes

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not William the Silent only, but all the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to babble of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day: on the morrow, how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rubbish have those mute workmen within thee swept away, when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.”
― Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

“There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.”
― Anthony Liccione

“real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The password to creativity is SILENCE.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Some misunderstand silence as weakness, when it's actually grace at work protecting what God is perfecting in private.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“If silence were golden, everyone would be rich.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I always think of something funny and sometimes I shouldn't say it.”
― Edward Abdill

“Silence is golden when you can lose the gold.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“In some cases, the absence of communication is another form of love and peace.”
― Joan Ambu

“Silence is the doorway to the temple of imagination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Silence is not golden for the mute.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“People have their ideas about the silent treatment. Sometimes, the only mature response is total silence. It is not a treatment. It's an answer.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny