“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
Of Discretion.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
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Thomas Carlyle481
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881Related quotes
“I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”
Variant: He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent
silence.
Source: Speak
“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
Source: Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977), p. 188
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Encyclopaedia Americana (1832) Vol. X, p. 445 edited by Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, and Thomas Gamaliel Bradford
“Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.”
Marion L. Starkey (1901–1991) American historian & writer
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 18, “The Ghost of Mary Esty” (p. 215)
Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) Italian historian and writer
Se l'arte dell'eloquenza è l'arte di persuadere, non vi è altra eloquenza che quella di dire sempre il vero, il solo vero, il nudo vero. Le parole, onde è necessità di nostra inferma natura di rivestire il pensiero, saranno tanto più potenti, quanto più atte al fine, cioè più nudo lasceranno il vero, che è nel pensiero.
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