Quotes About Silence

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

I observe and remain silent.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

All that is required to realise the Self is to "Be Still.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.