Silence Quotes

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

Silence is so accurate.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Silence is the garden of thought.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

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.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.