Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Quotations
Silence
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
