Silence Quotes

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is best.

Speech is the small change of silence.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Only silence perfects silence.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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 as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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.

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.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.