Silence Quotes
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.Benjamin Franklin
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
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
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
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
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.Beckett
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is more useful than silence.Menande
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.Vincent Van Gough
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.Seneca
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.Steven Wright
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.Meister Eckhart
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
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
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
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?Steven Wright
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
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.Helen Kelle
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence is a friend who will never betray.Confucius
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.Pam Brown
