SILENCE QUOTES II

quotations about silence

Silence quote

Silence is one of the most productive stimuli for the brain.

LIZ WALSH

The Advertiser, August 29, 2017


Silence is the virtue of fools.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum

Tags: Francis Bacon


Silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"Everything Has Two Endings"

Tags: Jane Hirshfield


Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

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She tests every word like a fine wine
She holds every thought like her last dime
You can hear a pin drop from miles away
You can hear a heart stop as plain as day
We live in a land where silence is king
Whispers have all disappeared
Cry for an echo, you won't hear a thing
Silence is king around here

TANYA TUCKER

"Silence Is King"


Silence is one great art of conversation.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

Tags: William Hazlitt


Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

AESOP

Fables

Tags: Aesop


I'll speak to thee in silence.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Cymbeline


If we cannot teach beasts to speak, we can at least learn silence from them.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

Tags: Ivan Panin


Silence often has the strongest voice.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

CHAIM POTOK

The Chosen


Is this what you wanted
The silence so deafening it hurts
If you ever listened
Then you would hear it for yourself

DEEPFIELD

"The Silence"


Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder.

BOB DYLAN

"Love Sick"

Tags: Bob Dylan


Without the mooring of silence, life is just depressing movement, a puny little boat unceasingly tossed about by the violence of the waves.

ROBERT CARDINAL SARAH

The Power of Silence


The noblest works, like the temple of Solomon, are brought to perfection in silence.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

WOODY ALLEN

attributed, Laugh Your Way to Grace

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A silent man's words are not brought into court.

DANISH PROVERB


Silence more musical than any song.

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

"Rest"


He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

ELBERT HUBBARD

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Protest", Poems of Problems

Tags: Ella Wheeler Wilcox