Silence Quotes

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Made

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

End, Words, Remember

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

Nature, God, Friend

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, History, Bad

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Tragedy

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran

Kindness, Ungrateful, Strange

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Words

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Makes, Cowards

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Confucius

True, Friend, Betrays

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu

Great, Strength, Source

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

Music, After, Expressing

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Everything, May, Learn

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson

Religious, Notice, Disputes

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Wisdom, Sleep, Nourishes

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life, Yourself, Mistakes

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

Human, Suffering, Silent

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

Art, Knowledge, Ignorance

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

Human, Words, Tragedy

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali

Good, Answer, Golden

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin

Word, Idle, Account

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

Words, Understand

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing, Authority

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara

Means, Argument, Carried

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

True, Saying, Everything

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Hear, Choose

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Night, Another

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

Friend, Person, Grow

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw

Perfect, Expression, Scorn

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia Butler

Time, Art, Friend

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus

Same, Quiet, Escape

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