Silence Is Quotes

• Speech is silver, silence is golden.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Gold, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

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• Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Silence, Spheres, Speech

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1857). “Songs of Summer”, p.12

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• Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Past

  "Teachers of Wisdom". Book by Igor Kononenko, p. 134, 2010.

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  Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expression, Perfect, Silence

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Positive, Art, Silence

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Silence, Together

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grieving, Self Respect, Silence

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Success, Yoga, Silence

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• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Silence, Unbearable, Repartee

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Bystanders, History

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Silence, Sanctuary, Prudence

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• Silence is the best reply to a fool.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Silence, Fool

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• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  Ambrose

  Silence, Causes, Dangerous

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Library of Congress, 1989.

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• Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Envy, Silence, Contradiction

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Power, Silence, Weapons

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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  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.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  God, Silence, Meditation

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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