Silence Quotes
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
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
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
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
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.Saskya Pandita
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.Charles De Gaulle
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.Steven Wright
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
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
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
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. 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
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
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
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
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
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
Your very silence shows you agree.Euripides
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.Author Unknown
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
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
