Silence Quotes
Silence is a friend who will never betray.Confucius
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
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
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.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.Martin Fraquhar Tuppe
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William Shakespeare
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.Martha Grimes, from Hotel Paradise, a novel
Their silence is sufficient praise.Terence
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
The rest is silence.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
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
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
Your very silence shows you agree.Euripides
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
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
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.Benjamin Franklin
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
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.
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
