Quotes on Silence
There are times when silence is golden, other times it is just plain yellow.
Ed Cole
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A man who silently lives by his ethics makes a more profound argument than one who deafens us with his shouting about them.
Gerry Spence
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Tupper
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I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
Calvin Coolidge
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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When there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.
George Washington
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Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
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This is the context.
Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
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Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
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