Silence Quotes

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
William Rose Benet
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
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
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
Franz xavier kroetz - language exists only on the surface of our...
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
Prophet mohammed, bukhari - it is better to sit alone than in company with...
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel Marceau
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
Thomas carlyle - silence is deep as eternity speech is shallow as...
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.
Unknown
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Their silence is sufficient praise.
Terence
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Beckett
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis Mcginley
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Your very silence shows you agree.
Euripides
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Viscount Morley
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
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
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Visions of Gregorian Chants
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.
Hellen Kelle
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.
Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool
With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.
Horace
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
Helen Kelle
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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 Bulwer - Lytton
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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