Silence Quotes
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.Publilius Syrus
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
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
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
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.Benjamin Franklin
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
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
Silence is argument carried out by other means.Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.Martin Fraquhar Tuppe
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
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
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
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
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
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
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.Alfred Jarry
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.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.Albert Camus
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
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
