Silence Quotes

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Their silence is praise enough.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

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

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

In some causes silence is dangerous.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is so accurate.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.