Best 3011 quotes in «silence quotes» category

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope -- here is fortitude indeed.

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

True silence is really endless speech.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.