Silence Is Quotes

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Silence is often the best thing to say.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

Silence is safer than speech.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

and silence is the golden mountain

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Silence is a source of great strenght.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.