Quotes About Silence

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.

Speak little, do much.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.

How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

Silence is the herald of joy