“Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences.”

“"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor.”

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer

“A fence to wisdom is silence.”

Akiba ben Joseph (50–136) Tanna

“Silence is a great wisdom.”

Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar

“Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.”

Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams

“Silence is a fence around wisdom.”

Maimónides (1138–1204) rabbi, physician, philosopher

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“Passing over the other arts in silence, I shall speak briefly of that which concerns the health of mankind; indeed, of all the arts the genius of man has discovered it is by far the most beneficial and of prime necessity, although difficult and laborious.”

Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) early anatomist

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher