Quotes About Silence

Yet part for honesty and part for shame, I had remained silent. I could only comfort myself with remembering that we should soon meet again, and that the future might be kinder. Well, sometimes the future is kinder, but it is never the same thing as the past.

Franklin was worried that his fondness for conversation and eagerness to impress made him prone to "prattling, punning and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company." Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue." So in the Junto, he began to work on his use of silence and gentle dialogue.

He fell silent for a very long time. "But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.

There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs's accomplishments

I very rarely think in words at all

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream.

You don't have to be smart to be tough-minded. As a matter of fact, the combination of stupidity and silence might be the greatest weapon in the history of our species.

I went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream.

There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself.

Do the Tao Now Spend an hour, a day, a week, or a month practicing not giving unsolicited advice. Stop yourself for an instant and call upon your silent knowing. Ask a question, rather than giving advice or citing an example from your life, and then just listen to yourself and the other person. As Lao-tzu would like you to know, that's "the highest state of man.

It is the space between the notes that makes the music. Without that emptiness, that silence in between, there is no music, only a noise.

When there is silence, one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

There is a universe within you—a unified field of all possibilities that you can reach as you become the compassionate witness. Be silent and shut down the inner dialogue. Most important, transcend the false self that we call the ego. That is when the healing will occur.

those who believe, no words are necessary. For those who do not believe, no words are possible." I

Use fewer words; commit yourself to long periods of listening; and eliminate giving advice, meddling, and participating in gossip.

Listen more and speak less

Open mouth—spirit escapes. Closed mouth—spirit connection excellent!

Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within.