quotations about silence
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON
De Augmentis Scientiarum
Silence is one of the most productive stimuli for the brain.
LIZ WALSH
The Advertiser, August 29, 2017
She tests every word like a fine wine
She holds every thought like her last dime
You can hear a pin drop from miles away
You can hear a heart stop as plain as day
We live in a land where silence is king
Whispers have all disappeared
Cry for an echo, you won't hear a thing
Silence is king around here
TANYA TUCKER
"Silence Is King"
Silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Everything Has Two Endings"
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
AESOP
Fables
Silence is one great art of conversation.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
If we cannot teach beasts to speak, we can at least learn silence from them.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Silence often has the strongest voice.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
I'll speak to thee in silence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
CHAIM POTOK
The Chosen
Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder.
BOB DYLAN
"Love Sick"
Is this what you wanted
The silence so deafening it hurts
If you ever listened
Then you would hear it for yourself
DEEPFIELD
"The Silence"
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, Laugh Your Way to Grace
Without the mooring of silence, life is just depressing movement, a puny little boat unceasingly tossed about by the violence of the waves.
ROBERT CARDINAL SARAH
The Power of Silence
A silent man's words are not brought into court.
DANISH PROVERB
Silence more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI
"Rest"
The noblest works, like the temple of Solomon, are brought to perfection in silence.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Protest", Poems of Problems