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Silence Quotes

"You don't need words to express how you feel"
Robert De Niro
"Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy."
Taylor Swift
"If you were going to shoot a mime would you use a silencer"
Steven Wright
"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell"
Emily Dickinson
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"
Aldous Huxley
"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out."
Arundhati Roy
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
Sylvia Plath
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought"
Euripides
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
Edmund Burke
"Never miss a good chance to shut up."
Will Rogers
"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak"
George Clooney
"Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."
Rumi
"Be an empty page, untouched by words."
Rumi
"When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music."
Rumi
"Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer."
Muhammad Ali
"Keep calm and shut your mouth."
Dwayne Johnson
"Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
Sun Tzu
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people."
Napoleon Bonaparte