silence quotes

“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” Rumi. We collected some of the best quotes about silence, being silent and breaking the silence. Which one is your favorite?


Silence quotes - In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

— Martin Luther King

Silence quotes - To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Your silence gives consent.”

— Plato

“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”

— Plato

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

— Che Guevara

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

— Confucius

Silence quotes - The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

“The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Silence is true wisdom's best reply. ”

— Euripides

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

— Aldous Huxley

“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

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? ”

— Sophocles

“Silence is an ornament for women.”

— Sophocles

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

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

— Helen Keller

“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.”

— Muhammad Ali

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

— Blaise Pascal

“There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Silence is the virtue of fools.”

— Francis Bacon

“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”

— Judy Garland

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“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