When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports... →
Michel De Certeau
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
Aime Cesaire
I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
Billy Childish
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and... →
Noam Chomsky
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emile M. Cioran
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.