Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

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

Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Silence is also speech.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Respect my silence.

By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

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 henceforth to rule.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence, and if he knew this, he would no longer be ignorant.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak, we are two.

A word is worth one coin; silence is worth two.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

You can't improve on saying nothing.

Silence is one great art of conversation.