Silence Quotes

The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Silence is God's first language.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you do not really convince him. Though he is no longer saying anything, in his heart he still keeps to his opinion, the only way to make him change that opinion is to speak quietly and reasonably. When he understands that you are not trying to defeat him, but only to find the truth, he will listen to you and perhaps accept what you tell him.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.