Silence Quotes

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Scott Sheddan

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Ibn Gabirol

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Henry Giles

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. Proverbs 17:28

Bible

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. New Testament

Bible

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Robert Burns

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Kahlil Gibran

It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Ivan Illich

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.

Charles Delint

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Plato

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Thomas Carlyle