Quotes related to Proverbs 17:28
He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.
— Ayn Rand
Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
— Barack Obama
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument.
— Barbara Kingsolver
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
— John Donne
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
— Joseph Addison
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
— Eugene Peterson
You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.
— Eugene Peterson
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
— Euripides
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
— Mark Twain
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen