I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise. — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. — Pythagoras
Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success. — Linda Bradford Raschke
Your silence gives consent.
It is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted. — Bob Monkhouse
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough. — Chuck Palahniuk
I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow. — Zell Miller
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow. — Unknown
Silence Is Loud Quotes
The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me. — Karl Rahner
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word. — Gloria Naylor
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence. — Anne Lamott
Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie." — A. M. Rosenthal
I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
The silken sound of whirled infinity
Is lost in voices shouting to be heard. — William Alexander Percy
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense. — James Alison
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels. — Vittorio Alfieri
Sometimes silence is the most effective tool to make impact, and sometimes loud and big is the trick. — Per Hallberg
Silence Speaks Quotes
Speak only if it improves upon the silence. — Mahatma Gandhi
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. — T. S. Eliot
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. — Ralph C. Smedley
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. — Sayings
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. — Toni Morrison
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free. — Arundhati Roy
The more you know the less you talk. — A. R. Rahman
Power Of Silence Quotes
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. — John Stuart Mill
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens. — Judith Lewis Herman
Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. — Amy Goodman
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. — Leonardo da Vinci
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. — Czeslaw Milosz
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole. — Adam Weishaupt
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that. — Jackson Katz
Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us. — Pope Benedict XVI
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist. — Barack Obama
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. — Lance Morrow
Silence Is Quotes
Silence is argument carried out by other means. — Che Guevara
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap. — Hildegard of Bingen
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. — Isaac Newton
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence. — Sheryl Condie
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. — Fulton J. Sheen
Sounds Of Silence Quotes
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation. — Sigurd F. Olson
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon
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
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening. — Bernie Krause
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier
Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence. — Robert Fripp
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds. — Paul Brunton
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time. — Maureen Dowd
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself. — Jean Klein
Better To Be Silent Quotes
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart. — Pope John Paul II
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. — Pythagoras
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. — Unknown
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. — Plutarch
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it. — James Boswell
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. — Voltaire
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. — William Butler Yeats
Silence And Peace Quotes
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty." — Oscar Romero
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform. — Pythagoras
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. — Oscar Wilde
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. — Oscar Romero
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind. — Jill Bolte Taylor
Peace is not the product of terror or fear. — Oscar Romero
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. — Khaled Hosseini
Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn. — Isaac Jogues
Silence Love Quotes
Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. — Shams Tabrizi
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. — E. E. cummings
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. — Robert Bly
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. — C. S. Lewis
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. — Nora Roberts
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. — C. S. Lewis
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. — Guy de Maupassant
Being Silent Quotes
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak–and speak in such a way that people will remember it. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb. — Pythagoras
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. — John Calvin
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
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest. — Abraham Lincoln
When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me. — Walt Whitman
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific. — W. E. B. Du Bois
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. — Edith Sitwell
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again. — Umar
Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Filipino Proverbs
Words are silver, silence is golden. — Russian Proverbs
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Xenocrates
Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up. — Eckhart Tolle
Silence isn't golden. It's yellow. — Zell Miller
Speech is silver, silence is golden. — Thomas Carlyle
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. — John Keats
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. — Seneca The Elder
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. — Jeremiah
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. — Meister Eckhart
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything. — Marianne Williamson
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. — Samuel Johnson
Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden. — Lewis Carroll
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy. — Gregory Bateson
Silence is golden! [Malcolm Subban] knows not to talk too much smack cause you don't want to give me that incentive right? — P. K. Subban
Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees. — Franny Armstrong
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. — Swami Vivekananda
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent. — Margaret Heffernan
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject — Josh Billings
Some say silence is golden, I choose noise! — Blake Lewis
I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing. — Lauren Oliver
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. — Chuck Palahniuk
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