No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William ShakespeareThe time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham LincolnBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George EliotMadness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich NietzscheFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen KellerSilence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.
Taylor SwiftIn human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David ThoreauSilence is safer than speech.
EpictetusAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous HuxleyAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauThe empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
PlatoGeorge is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.
Steven WrightSilence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Muhammad AliSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSome animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.
AristotleIn the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.
Albert EinsteinIf we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George EliotChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon BonaparteMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiA gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
Dolly PartonAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund BurkeThe first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles DickensTo rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI am rather inclined to silence.
Abraham LincolnI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil GibranHave you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIn time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas CarlyleI make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.
Mark TwainLaws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEverything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen KellerIt was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Hermann HesseSilence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas CarlyleAll the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillI think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
Brian EnoTo be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
PlatoSometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai LamaAbsolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThough silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGreat 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 HuxleyThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch SpinozaThe eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise PascalThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainI think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.
Kurt VonnegutI’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Marilyn MonroeEverything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Wayne DyerYou are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin LutherLet us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSaying nothing… sometimes says the most.
Emily DickinsonWhen the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiNo traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
John MuirWe must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
VoltaireThere are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George CarlinSilence is argument carried out by other means.
Che GuevaraAfter one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.
Nelson MandelaSilence is a true friend who never betrays.
ConfuciusWe 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.
Mother Teresa