Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?

He understands that that impatience to speak is also an implacable uninterest in listening

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

Complaint always comes back in an echo from the ends of the world; but silence strengthens us.

The mark of a spiritual man or woman is a listening heart, not a lecturing tongue.

Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible. I don't know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

Whose silence are you?

For he who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know" (12) And "The Wise Man gives instruction Without the use of speech." (13)