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

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Your silence will not protect you.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.