Quotes about Silence

If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.

We stand before genius in silence. We cannot speak it, we can only speak as it. Yet, though I speak as genius, I cannot speak for genius. I cannot give nature a voice in my script. I can not give others a voice in my script-without denying their own source, their originality. To do so is to cease responding to the other, to cease being responsible. No one and nothing belong in my script.

The silence to which the losers pledge themselves is the silence of obedience. Losers have nothing to say; nor have they an audience who would listen. The vanquished are effectively of one with the victors, and of one mind; they are completely incapable of opposition, and therefore without any otherness whatsoever.

Part of getting over pain and hurt doesn't always mean we have to talk about it. Sometimes it is wiser to keep our thoughts to ourselves. We forget how powerful words can be.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

Money doesn't talk. It screams.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.