Quotes About Silence

Love is a book without words – Riley HughesRate it:

Shut up,' he explained.

I have learned that silence is a way of hearing the voices within and of exploring unexpressed and nascent thoughts and feelings.

Although I didn't hear the door swing

A wise man waits until everyone else has spoken.

No one can penetrate silence; they can only interpret what is said. However, silence will create an abundance of speculative suppositions.

Only wisdom can teach us when it's best to say nothing.

The silence of many is deafening. Especially when our country is under attack by those who challenge the moral values of our Constitution.

Your legacy among family and friends shall resemble a blank page while you remain silent when others threaten our constitutional values.

I have heard men snore till I was really afraid they would choke, but as for acknowledging that they had been asleep—never!

If you just avoid mentioning your idea, you automatically start asking better questions. Doing this is the easiest (and biggest) improvement you can make to your customer conversations.

there's a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far, far beyond, out across the netherlands of the Known, the din of human static slowly fades away, over and out.

I was too scared to talk, but I was more scared to not talk.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you," he said. "The most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that "You don't have to explain something you haven't said

Silence is the Buddha's greatest expression. It's the Buddha's great teaching, what the Hindus call "You are That" in the Upanishads. "You are the ultimate reality. You are God!" the Hindus boldly declare. But the Buddha's way of affirming that fact is by being silent, because if you are that, after all, if you are what the theists think is God, you already know it yourself. (p. 15)

Martin Luther King, Jr., applied the same logic to the struggle for civil rights in America. "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Alice More: As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met, or am likely to; And, if you go...Well, God knows why I suppose. Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it!

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.