Quotes About Silence

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.