Silence Quotes
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
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
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Plutarch
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
With silence favor me.Horace
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
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
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
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
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
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.
With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.Horace
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.Author Unknown
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
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
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William Shakespeare
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.Charles De Gaulle
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
