The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.--Marianne Moore

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 (In Theatre Arts, June 1956)

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.--Mother Teresa

It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt--Anonymous

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.--Dionysius the Elder

Lying is done with words and also with silence.--Adrienne Rich

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.--Harvey Fierstein

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.--Anne Morrow Lindberg

Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.--Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)

A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise thoughts.--Diodicus

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.--Myrtle Reed (Old Rose and Silver)

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.--Norman Vincent Peale

Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.--Mother Teresa 

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.--Confucius

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.--Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the mother of truth.--Benjamin Disraeli (Tancred Or, The New Crusade)

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.--William Penn (Some Fruits of Solitude)

Too many people are afraid of silence. It is as if something has to be happening all the time. But often, with silence, there is more happening. There is a reflection on what was really said to us, what was really meant by the remarks, and, yes, perhaps some passage of thought between that person and ourselves.--Kreskin (The Amazing) (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.--William Penn

Truth is violated by falsehood, but outraged by silence.--Anonymous

We can do more work in the silence than we can by moving the lips and letting the mouth make a continuous noise. That interferes with our own thinking as well as with other people's. There is a stillness in a thinker's mind; there is a quietness in a thinker's presence, where even words are entirely unnecessary.--Robert Beesley

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.--Joan Halifax The Fruitful Darkness)

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.--Mother Teresa

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.--John Morley (Rousseau)