Quotes About Silence

El hombre ha renunciado al saber silencioso en favor del mundo de la razón. Cuanto más se aferra al mundo de la razón, más efímero es el propósito».

Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world.

Living by Silent Knowing This is probably the best-known verse of the Tao Te Ching. In fact, the opening two lines ("Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know") are so popular that they've almost become a cliché. Nevertheless

you've been raised in a culture that not only eschews silence, but is terrified of it.

I urge you to demand more and more time for silence in your life.

Somewhere within the soul there is silence. Attain unto it. It is a pearl of great price.

Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace

It was nice, though, riding with my father. It was like the silence connected us in a way that explanations never could.

This is the kind of silence that connects us in a way that words never could.

I had a lot of questions, but none I wanted to ask. It was nice, though, riding with my father. It was like the silence connected us in a way that explanations never could.

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but with the difficulty--in my own mind, or in the human lot--of knowing what or how to pray. Lying awake at night, I could feel myself being changed--into what, I had no idea.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

We need to engage him with our whole lives. That means cleaning out the garbage of noise and distraction from our homes. It means building real Christian friendships. It means cultivating oases of silence, worship, and prayer in our lives. It means having more children and raising them in the love of the Lord. It means fighting death and fear with joy and life, one family at a time, with families sustaining one another against the temptations of weariness and resentment.

If you silence remonstrance and stifle complaint, you then leave no other alternative but force and violence.

One price of demystifying the universe is that science, unlike religion, asks only how, not why. As to the purpose of things, science is silent. But if science cannot talk about meaning, it can talk about harmony.

As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous.

Darkness does that. It speaks fears that, left alone, remain unspoken, yet real.

O amor faz destas coisas. Nomeia o inominável e confere voz ao silêncio

We stood in silence, and yet I heard a familiar voice saying, Listen here, child, that's God's little girl, baggage and all, so don't go judging the cover. He doesn't care what she looks like. He'll take her and us any way he can get us. Just like the woman at the well. Best you switch lenses and start seeing her that way too.

It was often what Charlie didn't say that spoke the loudest.