Quotes on Silence

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

Your silence will not protect you.

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.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.