4 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Silence

Thomas Carlyle quotes on silence

1. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

28. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

51. As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden- 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden'; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

94. He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.