Silent Quotes

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.

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

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.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on.

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent.

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

Be silent, or say something better than silence.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.

It's a silent disease, in many ways, as well. Some people are affected with immobility but many people have cognitive issues when can be very devastating.