expression
speech is silver, silence is golden
A proverb meaning that while speaking well is valuable, remaining silent can be even more valuable.
会議では沈黙は金雄弁は銀ということもある。
In meetings, sometimes silence is golden and speech is silver.
A Japanese rendering of the English proverb 'speech is silver, silence is golden', which itself originates from a 19th-century translation of a German saying.