Silence Quotes

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.

I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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.

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.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

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

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.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Silence is more musical than any song.

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.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

The rest is silence.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)

Their silence is sufficient praise.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.