Silence Quotes

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. View quote
Confucius
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. View quote
Pythagoras
Silence is the virtue of fools. View quote
Francis Bacon
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. View quote
Josh Billings
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Great souls endure in silence. (Friedrich Schiller)
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
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. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. View quote
Dorothy Dix
Silence is the one great art of conversation. View quote
William Hazlitt
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. (Rumi)
Silence is argument carried out by other means. View quote
Che Guevara
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. View quote
Aldous Huxley
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. View quote
Thomas Hardy