Silence Quotes
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
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
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
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
Silence is a text easy to misread.A. A. Attanasio
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
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
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Plutarch
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.Helen Kelle
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
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
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
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
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 struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.George Bernard Shaw
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.Joseph Sobran
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.
Your very silence shows you agree.Euripides
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.Publilius Syrus
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.Alfred Jarry
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.Steven Wright
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
