"Silent people" like to deceive themselves, thinking that they are silent because they are bored of communicating, or people don't suit them, or "I like to withdraw into myself." In reality, as soon as they unintentionally join a conversation, all their great intelligence and subtle inner qualities will not allow them to keep the conversation going; silent people will remain silent, not knowing what to say, or they will awkwardly throw in something about the weather or school, like distant relatives who don't know what to ask the growing boy, except whether he is doing well in school.
Can this be called stupidity? Lack of intelligence? Definitely not intelligence or aristocratic boredom.
In reality, a silent person may not even know that he is silent, because he fully satisfies his need for verbal communication by saying to someone, "Yes, the weather is nice these days..." Longer conversations tire him out, but this does not indicate a poor inner world. He thinks a lot and about many things, for example.
