Silence Quotes

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Music is the silence between the notes.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

No one nor anything can silence me.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

I can hear the roar of women's silence.