81 quotes
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
— Lao Tzu
“Time and silence are the most luxurious things today”
— Tom Ford
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil not to speak is to speak not to act is to act”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“An old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again”
— Matsuo Basho
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The cure for a lost voice is not in the throat it is in the life that created the silence and healing that silence is the real work”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Silence is a source of great strength”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts”
— Khalil Gibran
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
— Pythagoras
“In silence there is eloquence stop weaving and see how the pattern improves”
— Rumi
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny”
— Wole Soyinka
“Your silence will not protect you”
— Audre Lorde
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
— William Penn
“Silence is a source of great strength in friendship.”
“Silence is the language of God all else is poor translation”
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays”
— Confucius
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
“The small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and the greatest truths have wonder”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.”
— Martin Niemoller
“Silence is not the absence of sound but the absence of self”
— Anthony de Mello
“Silence is not about hearing nothing silence is about hearing everything at once”
— Cynthia Bourgeault
“Time and silence are the most luxurious things today and the best companions during failure”
“Silence is a place of freedom”
— Anne D. LeClaire
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“Silence is the true teaching it is the perfect teaching it works only for the advanced seeker”
— Ramana Maharshi
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
“Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.”
— Desiderata
— Gibran
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair is the one who shows true compassion”
— Henri Nouwen
“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”
— Shams Tabrizi
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry”
— John Cage
“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“Your silence will not protect you.”
“Silence is a place of great power and healing”
— Sara Maitland
“The quieter you become the more you can hear”
“Silence is essential we need silence just as much as we need air just as much as plants need light”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“Learn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we grow”
“Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.”
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
— Plato
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak against peace.”
“Dare to declare who you are it is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech”
— Hildegard of Bingen
“The trouble is that once you see it you cannot unsee it and once you have seen it keeping quiet saying nothing becomes as political an act as speaking out”
— Arundhati Roy
— Thomas Keating
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Music is the space between the notes”
— Claude Debussy
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with wonder and a deep sense of awe”
— Blaise Pascal
“In a world dedicated to distraction silence and stillness terrify us”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Silence is the true teaching it is the perfect teaching it is suited only for the most advanced seeker”
“The small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and faith dwells in that silence”
“If you are silent about your pain they will kill you and say you enjoyed it”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon
“Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent”
“True silence is the rest of the mind and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body. It brings nourishment and peace.”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair who can stay with us in an hour of grief is the healing presence we need”
“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say”
— Italo Calvino
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose there are no mistakes and no coincidences all events are blessings given to us to learn from”
“Silence is a source of great strength for the spiritual seeker”
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
— David Tyson
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair and confusion is the one who practices faith through presence”
“Silence is essential for deep transformation to take place”
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil and faith demands that we speak the truth with courage”
— Laozi
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
— Mark Twain
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