The Best 100 Quotes About Silence – My Personal Favorites!
This website is all about making your home, vehicle and various appliances quieter. I love silent environments where I can just chill out and do my own thing without any disturbances. These quotes are very soothing to my spiritual animal (the owl!). I hope you’ll find them inspiring and thought-provoking as well:
1. Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu
2. A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. – Pythagoras
3. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. – Francis Bacon
4. I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. – Albert Einstein
5. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. – Chaim Potok
6. Silence is true wisdom’s best reply. – Euripides
7. Time and silence are the most luxurious things today. – Tom Ford
8. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content. – Helen Keller
9. Saying nothing sometimes says the most. – Emily Dickinson
10. I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. -Aeschylus
11. In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. – Henry David Thoreau
12. In the silence behind what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long. – Andreas Fransson
13. Silence is so freaking loud. – Sarah Dessen
14. There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. – George Steiner
15. The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. – Unknown
16. Silence is sometimes the best answer. – Dalai Lama
17. Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. – Cato The Elder
19. Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. – Mandy Hale
20. If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something. – Federico Fellini
21. The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed. – Charlotte Bronte
22. The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. – Clarice Lispector
23. In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. – Rumi
24. Now all my teachers are dead except silence. – W. S. Merwin
25. Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. – William Faulkner
26. Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. – Epictetus
27. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. – Leonardo da Vinci
28. Without great solitude no serious work is possible. – Pablo Picasso
29. Speak only if it improves upon the silence. – Mahatma Gandhi
30. I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. – Publilius Syrus
31. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain
32. The truth hurts, but silence kills. – Mark Twain
33. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
34. As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. – Benjamin Franklin
35. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. – Martin Luther King Jr
36. Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer. – Muhammad Ali
37. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. – Charles de Gaulle
38. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence. – Mother Teresa
39. It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. – Victor Hugo
40. Silence is argument carried out by other means. – Ernesto Che Guevara
41. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. – Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
42. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. – Bob Dylan
43. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. – Blaise Pascal
44. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. – Blaise Pascal
45. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. – William Shakespeare
46. Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. – Henry David Thoreau
48. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. – Thomas Carlyle
49. A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. – Plutarch
50. Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. – Pythagoras
51. Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm. – Aeschylus
52. Inner silence is the mother of all talents. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
53. Real action is in silent moments. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. – Alan Watts
55. Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. – Thomas Carlyle
56. Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce
57. The quiet mind is richer than a crown. – Robert Greene
58. I was quiet, but I was not blind. – Jane Austen
59. Silence says a lot more than you think. – Unknown
60. Still waters run deep. – Unknown
61. Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud. – Unknown
62. Getting no message is also a message. – Unknown
63. A wise man once said nothing. – Unknown
64. You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don’t say. – Unknown
65. Silence isn’t empty. It’s full of ansers. – Unkwown
66.Silence is a place of great power and healing. – Rachel Naomi Remen
67. Silence is the mother of truth. – Benjamin Disraeli Click to tweet
68. To hear, one must be silent. – Ursula K. Le Guin
69. Sound is our mind, silence is our being. – Osho
70. Silence is more musical than any song. – Christina Rossetti
71. No one nor anything can silence me. – Dmitri Mendeleev
72. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation. – Susan Cain
73. Silence is safer than speech. – Epictetus
74. You misinterpret everything, even the silence. – Franz Kafka
75. Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. – Iain Duncan Smith
76. The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is. – Annie Dillard
77. Silence is better than unmeaning words. – Pythagoras
78. The silence is so deep it hurts our ears. – Haruki Murakami
79. You cannot be angry when alone. – Osho
80. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. – Karen Marie Moning
81. Silence is the virtue of fools. – Francis Bacon
82. A silent man is easily reputed wise. – Frederick William Robertson
83. Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. – George Henry Lewes
84. Speech is the small change of silence. – George Meredith
85. Never be bullied into silence. – Harvey Fierstein
86. Hope will never be silent. – Harvey Milk
87. Great souls suffer in silence. – Friedrich Schiller
88. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. – David Markson
89. Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
90. Being quiet is fine, most people don’t listen anyways. – Unknown
91. Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it’s important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. – Gary Shteyngart
92. Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound. – Jodi Picoult
93. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Robert Louis Stevenson
94. Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. – Arthur Schopenhauer
95. Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. – Daphne du Maurier
96. The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. – P.C. Wren
97. When you have nothing to say, say nothing. – Charles Caleb Colton
98. Listen to silence. It has so much to say. -Rumi
99. Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us. – Thomas Raymond Kelly
100. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world. – Sarah Orne Jewett
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