Browsing Topic Best Silence Quotes

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

Silence does good to the soul.

If it were possible to enforce a ban on lying, a ghastly silence would fall over the city of Washington.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history – 400 years where there wasn’t a prophet, 400 years where God’s voice wasn’t heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.

Silence is the most intolerable of answers.

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

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

Silence is worse when you know it won’t be broken.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

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

The starting point for creativity is silence… the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened, or perhaps everything has happened and I am sitting in my new life.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

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

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.