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.

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

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