Quotes
Quotes about Silence
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Silence gives consent.
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Great souls endure in silence.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em Talk us to silence.
