Top 56 Silence Is The Best Quotes
#1. Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
Josh Billings
#6. Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles
#7. A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
Samuel Chadwick
#10. In the absence of uplifting words, Silence is the best choice.
Joan Ambu
#12. Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.
Suman Pokhrel
#13. Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.
Saru Singhal
#14. At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.
Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb
#16. One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Mark Stevens
#17. The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.
Sercan Leylek
#18. sometimes being silent is the best way to appreciate the moment
Kiran Joshi
#19. To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.
Teju Cole
#21. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
#22. Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
Dan Pallotta
#23. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#24. You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.
I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.
Donna Boyd
#25. This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.
Walt Whitman
#26. For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others ... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.
Will Self
#27. Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.
Margaret Weis
#28. She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Sometimes when you have a wild dream [massive vision]people intend to run away from you but is not that they hate you or jealous of you. Simply they can't see what you see, they can't hear what you hear and they don't know what you know. The best thing is to love them in spite of their silence.
Euginia Herlihy
#30. Love transcended loss long enough for them to find that the depth of feeling is best known in silence, because in the presence of such love words are never quite enough.
Rita Leganski
#31. The best apology against false accusers is silence.
John Milton
#34. Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
William Wetmore Story
#35. Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
Nas
#36. The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is to talk little, but to hear much. . . . - SAMUEL & SARAH ADAMS, THE COMPLETE SERVANT, 1825
Julie Klassen
#37. Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Shelley Winters
#38. Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Josh Billings
#39. The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Aristotle.
#40. The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence
silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones
Vinay Kumar
#41. Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
Eduardo Galeano
#42. Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.
Jen Hatmaker
#43. I think we should always remember that reading
the experience of a book
is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.
Lloyd Alexander
#44. No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool's best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.
Carlos Wallace
#46. The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.
Jemima Khan
#47. Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#49. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#50. Such is life, marked by the ticking of the clock and the call of the alarm until the day it all falls into perpetual silence. For most of us, certainly for this boy, life is not composed of great deeds, but of small actions, and that's okay. It's the best I can give and I like it this way.
Gillibran Brown
#51. Silence is one of the best ways to immediately reduce stress, while increasing your self-awareness and gaining the clarity that will allow you to maintain your focus on your goals, priorities, and what's most important for your life, each and every day.
Hal Elrod
#52. You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.
Lisa Shearin
#53. Wisdom tells us that the best time for silence is when we are mad or upset.
John Patrick Hickey
#54. In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye. The therapists believe in talk, but most of them are either divorced or queer. It's silence that is a marriage's best friend.
Stephen King
#55. Silence in times of suffering is the best.
John Dryden
#56. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.
Richelle E. Goodrich