Silence Quotes
Silence is a topic where the shortest lines do best. Wittgenstein’s “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” closes the Tractatus (1922), and de Gaulle, in Le Fil de l’épée (1932), says nothing builds up authority like silence. Longfellow’s Evangeline (1847) has sorrow and silence both strong, with patient endurance godlike.
Two sayings are credited to Publilius Syrus and marked disputed: that he has often regretted his speech and never his silence, and that one should be silent or say something better than silence. “Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise” is credited to Anatole France and flagged misattributed. The notes trace it to an eighteenth-century poem, Bernard de Bonnard’s “Le Silence,” in the Almanach des Muses (1776).
Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film.
One who holds all things meet to utter, knowing no barrier betwixt speech and silence.
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
Silence is the understanding of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
This time, she silenced me not by speaking, but by pressing her lips against my mouth.
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Around her gulps of water, she repeated her prayer, until the monotony and futility silenced her.
The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.
Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.