Silence Quotes
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
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.Author Unknown
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.Margaret Lee Runbeck
Silence is a text easy to misread.A. A. Attanasio
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
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
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
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
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.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.Albert Camus
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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
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
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
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
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
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.Alfred Jarry
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.
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
