Silence Quotes

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

William Rose Benet

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Saadi

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Helen Kelle

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

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light

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

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles De Gaulle

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

John Lah

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

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

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

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

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

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Franz Xavier Kroetz

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

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

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

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.

Pam Brown

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

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

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Beckett

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

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Anon.

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.