Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

Margaret Heffernan

Silence is the language of inertia.

Michael Faraday

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!

Patrick Rothfuss

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

Leon Redbone

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

Lajos Kossuth

The unspoken word never does harm.

Oscar Wilde

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Simon Van Booy

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Rajneesh

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.

Socrates

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Jodi Picoult

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Jodi Picoult

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Ovid

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

Daniel Barenboim

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

Daniel Barenboim

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

Dag Hammarskjold

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Jack McDevitt

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

Jack Kerouac

The silence was an intense roar.

Jack Kerouac

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Jack Kerouac

and silence is the golden mountain

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, silence prevails; the wisdom of the world, however, goes astray into idle talk.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Isabel Allende

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

George Bernard Shaw

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Frederick William Robertson

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

Frederick William Robertson

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

Erica Jong

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Italo Calvino

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.

Hannah More

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

Hannah More

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.