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Quotes about Silence

60 quotes about silence, from Lao Tzu, Martin Luther King, Jr., Khalil Gibran and others.

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If you're going to say something everyone agrees with, you might as well have said nothing at all.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

Solitude is for me a source of healing that makes my life worth living. Speaking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

That which is not spoken becomes a poison in the soul.

As for myself, I had a lot to say. But I was silent.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

Malala Yousafzai

Words are most frightening when they fall silent.

The call of conscience has no utterance.

Martin Heidegger

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

The lonelier the place, the better it pleased me: its silence, its aura, its peculiar conformation, its enclosedness.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

Be silent unless you can say something that is more useful than your silence.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Honoré de Balzac

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

The more silence you have in your life, the louder your work can be.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Maurice Switzer

I don't talk about money.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines that increase noise and distract humanity from reflection.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

William Shakespeare

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

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