Silence Quotes

"I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother."

"I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

"Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace."

Ramana Maharshi

"There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre."

Kurt Vonnegut

"In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth teaching others."

Solomon ibn Gabirol

"Silence is a source of great strength."

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."

Charles Simic

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."

Confucius

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Francis Bacon

“Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums.”

“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”

“Silence gives consent.”

“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamour of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“He who knows the Tao does not care to speak about it; he who is ever ready to speak about it does not know it.”

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”