Silence is Quotes · Page 7

Silence is one great art of conversation.

— William Hazlitt

If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For…

— Thomas Merton

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

— Mike Nichols

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's…

— Ernestine Rose

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

— Thomas Moore

Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

— Gopichand Lagadapati

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

— Rumi

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

— Heinrich Heine

Silence is like a flame, you see?

— Marcel Marceau

God is to creation as silence is to sound.

— Mark R. Woodward

In music, silence is more important than sound.

— Miles Davis

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

— Sanford Meisner

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look…

— Adyashanti

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

— George Eliot

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us…

— George Eliot

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

— Oswald Chambers

Nothing is more useful than silence.

— Anonymous

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a…

— Henri Nouwen

Silence is sometimes the best answer

— Anonymous

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

— Laurence Overmire

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and…

— Anonymous

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

— Thomas Keating

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

— E. L. Konigsburg