Quotes About Silence

Let thy good spirit enter my heart and there be heard without utterance, and without the sound of words speak all truth.

Not to speak would have infused the moment with more meaning than it deserved.

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.

Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.

There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.