No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
Pam Brown

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Archibald MacLeish

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Mark Stevens

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz

Only silence perfects silence.
A. R. Ammons

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
Dana Hill

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
Aime Cesaire

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
Michael Ende

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Myrtle Reed

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
Marilu Henner

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Samuel Butler