Silence Quotes

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marcel Marceau

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

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 as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Henry David Thoreau

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Henry David Thoreau

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not William the Silent only, but all the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to babble of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day: on the morrow, how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rubbish have those mute workmen within thee swept away, when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Thomas Carlyle

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Albert Camus

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

Jodi Picoult

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S Truman

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S Truman

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S Truman

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

Your silence gives consent.

Plato

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

Neil Gaiman

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Blaise Pascal

And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter death has stopped the ears.

A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad,

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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 the while be sitting on one addled egg...

George Eliot, Felix Holt, ch. 15

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity Sc