Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

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

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones who comment "I want to kill you in your sleep," I respond to them too.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

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.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

Diss me and you'll never hear a reply for it

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

You can't improve on saying nothing.