Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was… — Robert Browning
The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential… — Deepak Chopra
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. — Marilu Henner
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and… — Michel de Certeau
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth,… — George Catlin
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of… — Colin Robinson
I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true… — Robert E. Lee
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account;… — Amy Carmichael
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,… — Sara Teasdale
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors? — Bertolt Brecht
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too. — Frank Bettger
Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they… — Unknown Author
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving. — Laozi
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. — W S Merwin
There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to… — John Wycliffe
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening… — Edward Hoagland
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where… — Spike Milligan
Silence is become his mother tongue. — Oliver Goldsmith
Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily — Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Silence gives the proper grace to women — Sophocles
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject — Josh Billings
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence — George Bernard Shaw
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues — Benjamin Franklin

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