“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game
Source: The Angel's Game
“silence makes you wise, among the noisemakers”
Source: Sweetest song I know
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“Silence is an answer in the eyes of the wise.”
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Unidentified Plays, Fragment 977
Variant translation: Silence is true wisdom's best reply. (See Discussion page for sourcing information)
“By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.”
Leo Strauss book Thoughts on Machiavelli
Source: Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958), p. 30
“Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Le silence est l'esprit des sots<br>Et l'une des vertus du sage. <br class="br">Bernard de Bonnard, "Le Silence," http://books.google.com/books?id=9gAvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR14&dq=%22Et+l%27une+des+vertus+du+sage%22+Bonnard&ei=iyzvR-bFOIa4zASV0PyoBQ#PPA244,M1 L'Almanach des Muses (1776) <br class="br">Misattributed
“A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of Bashfulness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 355.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
“Ah, but I’m wise,” Athena said. “Wise enough to make you do it instead.”
Rick Riordan (1964) American writer
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods