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Silence Quotes

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Mother Truth Silence

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Wisdom Silence Reputation Will Give

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Music Silence Problem Listen Big

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Leadership Women Silence World Tell

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good Silence People Bad People Bad

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

Home Forgiveness Silence Parents New

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

Yusef Komunyakaa

History Time Silence Slavery Look

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Silence Said Profound Most Often

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Silence Believe I Believe Complicity

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

Silence I Am Wait You Fall Wall

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

Wisdom Children Silence People Speak

I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.

Love History Silence Night Stand Go

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Depression Silence Government Society

I have always said that the debate about who should play in goal is part of the game, but I never play in order to silence anyone.

Silence Game Goal Debate Play Said

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Politics Silence Step Easy

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Acceptance Silence Argument Mean May

Silence is also conversation.

Ramana Maharshi

Silence Conversation Also

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life Darkness Ocean Silence Night

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Life Silence Think Present Week

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

Nature Silence Mind Consciousness

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth Silence Truth Is May Only

I would like to take a moment of silence to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of ISIS, especially Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and, most recently, Kayla Mueller.

Moment Silence Remember Hands Lost

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Nature History Silence Language True

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Silence Rest Reality Language Deal

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