Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Quotations
Silence
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.
-Steve Maraboli
When the world is too loud, silence is my only voice.
-Nouf Alfadl
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
