He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
Quotations
Silence
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.
-Ellie Mathews
