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Silence Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
- The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a…
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have…
- Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
- All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and…
- Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.…
More Silence Quotes
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley