Silence Quotes

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Viscount Morley
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
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
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
Robert louis stevenson - the cruelest lies are often told in silence....
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. Robinson
Martin fraquhar tuppe - well - timed silence hath more eloquence than...
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Steven Wright
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
Margaret lee runbeck - silence makes the real conversation between...
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
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
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus
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
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis Mcginley
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Anon.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walke
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
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
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
Erich Fromm
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.
Pam Brown
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
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
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Confucius
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
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