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Quotes About Silence

Even trees do not die without a groan.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon
~ Matsuo Basho
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
~ Robert Frost
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
~ Robert Frost
I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.
~ Steven Wright
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
~ Jim Woodring
You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.
~ Simone Elkeles
That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.
~ Sara Zarr
Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.
~ Frank K. Sonnenberg
sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.
~ Anne Cameron
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
~ William Shakespeare
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.
~ Jill Shalvis
Intuition is to develop a trust in yourself, and to the silent whisperings of your heart. If you trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust existence.
~ Swami Dhyan Giten
Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.
~ Ally Condie, Atlantia
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
~ Kabir
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
~ Isaac Newton
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
~ Tom Waits