Silence Quotes
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
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
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
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.Steven Wright
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
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
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
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
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
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
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 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
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a text easy to misread.A. A. Attanasio
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
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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
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
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?Steven Wright
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
