Silence Quotes - Page 9

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

The unspoken word never does harm.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.

Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ..... Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.