Quotes
Quotes about Silence
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifthâteaching others.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. -Unknown.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he Yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, Green the grass-lawn stretched before them While the apple blossoms white Hung in rich profusion o'er them.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
