Quotes About Silence

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Oh. That. I stopped listening and just stared at your lips instead, which are quite beautiful, by the way. But I could tell you weren't going to say anything I wanted to hear, so I just ignored you.

Can any traditionally organized government withstand the ideological forces of a technologically empowered proletariat? Call them tweetmobs, blogmobs, txtmobs or simply citizen publishers—everyone has a voice, and no matter how the government tries to silence them, in the Information Age, information will find a way.