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Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.
Sep 17, 2025
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.
Silence is more musical than any song.
Silence is the garden of thought.
Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen 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.
I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Silence is golden! [Malcolm Subban] knows not to talk too much smack cause you don't want to give me that incentive right?
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
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.
Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.
The more you know the less you need to say.