Silence is the virtue of fools.

The hard silence between frustrated people always feels cluttered. But holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down. We offer it to ourselves when we work, rest, meditate, bike, read. When we hike by ourselves, we hear a silence still pristine with crunching leaves and birdsong. Silence can be a system of peace, which is mercy, easily offered to a friend needing quiet, harder when the person is one's own annoying self.

Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.