silence quotes

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. (Samuel Johnson) [silence]
• Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates. (Thomas Mann) [speech/silence]
• The rest is silence. (William Shakespeare) [rest/silence]
• Silence is the virtue of fools. (Francis Bacon) [silence/virtue]
• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. (Francis Bacon) [silence/wisdom]
• It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. (Francis Beaumont) [more/silence/argument]
• The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) [solitude/silence/speech/silence]
• It is tact that is golden, not silence. (Samuel Butler) [silence]
• Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. (Samuel Butler) [silence/silence]
• Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. (Italo Calvino) [words/silence/words]
• 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) [silence]
• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/speech/more]
• Silence is more eloquent than words. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/more/words]
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/fashion]
• Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. (Thomas Carlyle) [speech/human/silence]
• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/speech/time]
• 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) [speech/silence/silence/speech]
• 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) [silence]
• Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. (Thomas Carlyle) [speech/time/silence]
• Silence is the unbearable repartee. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [silence]
• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. (Marcus Cicero) [silence/conversation]
• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. (Charles Caleb Colton) [silence]
• Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ( Confucius) [silence]
• When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. (Benjamin Disraeli) [silence/mother/truth]
• Silence is the mother of truth. (Benjamin Disraeli) [silence/mother/truth]
• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Dorothy Dix) [weakness/punishment/silence]
• The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly. (Umberto Eco) [past/destruction/silence/irony]
• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. (George Eliot) [silence/literature/speech/take]
• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. (George Eliot) [speech/silence/willpower]
• The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [silence/thing/applause]
• Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. (Dag Hammarskjold) [silence/needs/words/solitude]

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