Famous Silence Quotes - Famous Quotes about Silence
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
- Jean Stafford
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
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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.
- Aldous Huxley
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato the Elder
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In quiet places, reason abounds.
- Adlai Stevenson
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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
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Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
- Edith Sitwell
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
- Will Rogers
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One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Ernesto Che Guevara
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
- Pythagoras
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Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted.
- Bob Monkhouse
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Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
- Marlee Matlin
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Silence is the wit of fools.
- Anatole France
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
- Euripides
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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... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
- Jean Arp
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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.
- John Cage
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy
- Will Durant
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
- Marcel Achard
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