Silence Quotes


Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. Phyllis Mcginley Silence 555
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. Arabic Proverbs Silence 433
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain Silence 344
Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras Silence 253
Silence makes no mistakes. French Proverb Silence 250
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. Victor Hugo silence 246
Silence is an answer to a wise man. Euripides Silence 214
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. Publilius Syrus Silence 190
The silence, often of pure innocence, persuades where speaking fails. William Shakespeare Silence 168
Silence is the unbearable repartee. G.K. Chesterton Silence 167
Let silence take you to the core of life. Rumi silence 160
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. Pythagoras Silence 158
Sometimes to remain silent is to lie since silence can be interpreted as assent. Miguel de Unamuno Silence 154
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Silvan Engel Silence 153
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. Ill meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi Silence 152
It is better either 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. Pythagoras Silence 144
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion. Arabic Proverbs Silence 128
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. George Eliot Silence 125
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw Silence 116
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same nothing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence which is stillness the infinitely creative womb of all existence. Eckhart Tolle Silence 115
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. Plutarch Silence 115
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others. Saint John of the Cross Silence 115
Silence is golden and gold is up these days so silence is a solid investment. Jarod Kintz Silence 110
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. Rumi Silence 109
The unspoken word never does harm. Lajos Kossuth Silence 108
Quiet persons are welcome everywhere. Thomas Fuller Silence 107
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg... George Eliot Silence 107
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Marcus Tullius Cicero Silence 106
It is only in alert silence that truth can be. Jiddu Krishnamurti Silence 105
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber. Sir Winston Churchill Silence 103
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us Lawrence Durrell Silence 101
Move outside the tangle of fearthinking. Live in silence. Rumi Silence 100
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. George Eliot Silence 99
Silence implies consent. Proverbs Silence 98
Silence is the virtue of fools. Francis Bacon Silence 97
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do. Arthur Schopenhauer Silence 97
A silent mouth is melodious. Proverbs Silence 96
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. Pythagoras Silence 96
Quiet is here and all in me. Dress of White Silk Richard Matheson Silence 95
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then your low words will be charged with dynamite. Elbert Hubbard Silence 95
Slowly we became silent and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. Norman Maclean Silence 95
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. Kahlil Gibran Silence 95
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. Aldous Huxley Silence 94
You gotta be careful dont say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever. Johnny Depp Silence 93
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. Phyllis Mcginley Silence 92
Thoughts works in silence; so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence. Thomas Carlyle Silence 92
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin Silence 91
Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear. Source Unknown Silence 91
Never say anything that doesnt improve on silence. Richard Yates Silence 91
I said nothing for a time just ran my fingertips along the edge of the humanshaped emptiness that had been left inside me. Haruki Murakami Silence 90

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