Quotes About Silence

attempting to appear nonprejudiced through silence, avoidance, and lack of disclosure may actually make someone appear more biased because great energy is expended to conceal thoughts and feelings, thereby making the person appear less friendly or involved (Apfelbaum, Sommers, & Norton, 2008; Sue, 2010).

TWELVE HOURS BEFORE AMBER LAMONT'S parents tried to kill her, she was sitting between them in the principal's office, her hands in her lap, stifling all the things she wanted to say.

The Doctor put his finger to his lips and Martha nodded and followed him as quietly as she could. Wet leaves squelched under her feet. There was movement up ahead: two teenagers, a pale boy and a nervous girl, walked into a clearing. The sun broke through the clouds and the boy started to sparkle. Martha felt the Doctor's eyes on her and she blushed. 'Do not judge me.' 'Judging is for later,' he said, and they continued on, giving the young lovers a wide berth.

her," he said. "She stares. That's what she does

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.

What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

A silent tongue does not betray its owner

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.