Silence Quotes - page 2

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. (Thomas Carlyle)
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Silence more musical than any song. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Silence is the surest resolve for him who distrusts himself. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. View quote
Ray Bradbury
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? View quote
Federico Fellini
Speech is the small change of silence. View quote
George Meredith
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. View quote
Patañjali
Silence is better than unmeaning words. View quote
Pythagoras
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. (Saskya Pandita)
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. View quote
William O. Douglas
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is more eloquent than words. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. View quote
Marcel Marceau
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. View quote
Marcel Marceau
Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. (Marcel Marceau)
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. View quote
John Cage
Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. View quote
Emil Cioran
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. View quote
William Penn