Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are… — Paul Weyrich
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence.… — Yogaswami
I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it. — George Bernard Shaw
We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and… — Geronimo
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. — Natalia Ginzburg
Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's… — Marlon Riggs
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice. — Paul Robeson
We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices… — Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor. — Unknown Author
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
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have… — Desiderius Erasmus
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. — Thomas Hood
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. — Thomas Carlyle
Not to ask is not be denied. — John Dryden
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! — Robert Burns
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. — Oscar Wilde
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. — Henry David Thoreau
Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. — Unknown Author
From politics it was an easy step to silence. — Jane Austen
Silence is the unbearable repartee. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. — Aldous Huxley
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all… — George Eliot
Silence is a text easy to misread. — A.A. Attanasio

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