Silence Quotes
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.Charles De Gaulle
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.Joseph Sobran
Silence is a text easy to misread.A. A. Attanasio
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.Martha Grimes, from Hotel Paradise, a novel
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.Author Unknown
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.Peter Minard
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.Vincent Van Gough
Their silence is sufficient praise.Terence
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.Mother Theresa
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.Archibald MacLeish
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.Kahlil Gibran
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.Kahlil Gibron
