Quotes:
The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
View quotes by Henry Giles
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
View quotes by Gladys Browyn Stern
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
View quotes by Gertrude Stein
What is reading, but silent conversation.
View quotes by Charles Lamb
He silent and safe - silence never betrays you
View quotes by John Boyle O'Reilly
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
View quotes by Elias Canetti
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent
View quotes by Archibald MacLeish
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
View quotes by Benedict Spinoza
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
View quotes by Mary Pickford
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
View quotes by Thornton Wilder
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that happen.
View quotes by Martin Luther King Jr
It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
View quotes by Mark Twain
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
View quotes by Edmund Burke
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
View quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
Use the talents you possess for the woods would be silent if no birds sang but the best.
View quotes by Henry Jackson Van Dyke
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
View quotes by Ezra Taft Benson
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
View quotes by W B Yeats
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
View quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa
View quotes by James Michener
Proverbs:
When A Fool Is Silent, He Too Is Counted Among The Wise
Better To Remain Silent And Appear A Fool, Than To Open Your Mouth And Remove All Doubt
There Is A Time To Speak And A Time To Be Silent
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