Silence Quotes

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato

Shall, Assume, Consent

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Great, Truth, Words

Your silence gives consent.
Plato

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

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams

Focus, Words, Become

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix

Soul, Secrets, Takes

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks

Power, Words, Another

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Often, Lies, Cruelest

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing, Friend, Eye

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Johannes Tauler

Knowledge, Wisdom, School

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, Sadness, Image

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

Hardest, Refute

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Strength, Words

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot

After, Write, Emptiness

Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle

Words, Eloquent

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello

Work, Religion, Politics

It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler

A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
Audre Lorde

Women, Respect, Fear

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Good, Deep

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

Great, Together, Fashion

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great 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 Huxley

Great, Truth, Opinion

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Epictetus

Keep, Speak, Briefly

If 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 Eliot

Life, Heart, Human

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle

Whole, Fall, Forest

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Deep, Speech

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle

Human, Learn, Dead

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley

Mean, Acceptance, May

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