Silence Quotes
Nothing is more useful than silence.Menande
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.Archibald Mc Leish
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
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
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.
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
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
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
Their silence is sufficient praise.Terence
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
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.Author Unknown
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
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.Beckett
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.Kahlil Gibron
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
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.George Bernard Shaw
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
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
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
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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
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
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
Your very silence shows you agree.Euripides
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
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
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.Steven Wright
