Silence Quotes

Robert fripp - music is the wine that fills the cup of silence....
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Author Unknown
Saskya pandita - much talking is the cause of danger. silence is...
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
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
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca
Confucius - silence is a friend who will never betray....
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus
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
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. Robinson
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores
Nothing is more useful than silence.
Menande
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Archibald Mc Leish
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
With silence favor me.
Horace
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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.
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.
Steven Wright
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Tom Blai
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
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson
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
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tuppe
Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.
H. G. Mendelson
Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Steven Wright