Silence Quotes · Page 5

Noise: a stench in the ear.

— Ambrose Bierce

Your silence gives consent.

— Plato

Silence is wisdom

— Anonymous

Silence can never be quoted.

— Anonymous

“Work hard in silence.”

— Alin Sav

Silent guns have virtue.

— Robert Genn

“Silence is a powerful tool.”

— Suzanne Hayes

Whose silence are you?

— Thomas Merton

A heavy bass line is my kind of silence

— Dizzee Rascal

Even in silence we can whisper the most beautiful words

— Laylablack

“Silence is golden when you can lose the gold.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Silence is a great source of strength.

— John Heider

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

— Pindar

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

— Charles Lamb

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

— George Farquhar

Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

— Leslie Nielsen

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.

— Rolf Harris

Silence can be very effective, and it gives the music space to breathe.

— Johann Johannsson

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

— Eric Maisel

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

— Henry David Thoreau

A moment of silence to everyone whose birthday is on the 29th of February, 2014..

— Jeromy Shingongo

“Listening and silence are not necessarily the same thing, but silence is a really good start.”

— Adam S. McHugh

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

— Adelaide Crapsey

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

— Louise Penny

The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

— Nouman Ali Khan

“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to…

— Lynelle Clark

[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it… [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes…

— Rajneesh

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than…

— Martina Cole

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full…

— William Habington

“Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change,"…

— John Barnes

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so…

— Billy Childish

The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the…

— George Selden

Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day,…

— Anonymous

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently…

— Boris Pasternak

“There is a place born of silence A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a place where voices…

— Rumi

“I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing…

— Soren Narnia

“In the seventh century, Isaac the Syrian wrote about 'stillness,' which in his writings has been summarized as 'a deliberate denial of…

— Kenneth Bailey

“Lust of life digs out hidden qualities and subdued yearnings from the silence of our inner self. If we give way to…

— Erik Pevernagie