Ramana Maharshi Quotes

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

You can't improve on saying nothing.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Silence is worth a thousand pieces of silver.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

There is no diplomacy like silence.