Silence Quotes
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.Meister Eckhart
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
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
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
With silence favor me.Horace
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
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
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?Steven Wright
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.Martin Fraquhar Tuppe
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
The rest is silence.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William Shakespeare
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
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
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
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.Alfred Jarry
