Silence Quotes

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.