Silence Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more eloquent than words.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Thought will not work except in silence.

— Thomas Carlyle

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

— Thomas Carlyle

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else…

— Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is…

— Thomas Carlyle

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

— Thomas Carlyle

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

— Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

— Thomas Carlyle

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an…

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the…

— Thomas Carlyle

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to…

— Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find…

— Thomas Carlyle

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the…

— Thomas Carlyle

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”

— Thomas Carlyle

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

— Thomas Carlyle