The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
*I'm never speaking up again, It only hurts me.. I'd rather be a mystery* — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Silence is a powerful answer but don't forget to speak when you have to. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“Yes, that's right, if humanity suddenly disappeared, there would be an incredible silence on Earth!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal… — John Francis Copy Share Image
“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
It's more for me as with going into a forest: if you sit quietly for a long time, the life around you… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“She listened to silence. Except the birds. The waves. A few voices in the distance. She would not turn to him. He… — Ella M. Kaye Copy Share Image
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Sometimes silence doesn't mean your upset or angry. Sometimes silence mean that I've learned who is worth the words you have to… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“O where does he stalk like a horse in pastures very far afield? I cannot hear him, and silence writes more terrible… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the… — Gabriel Josipovici Copy Share Image
“When clouds of pain loom in the sky When a shadow of sadness flickers by When a tear finds its way to… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
“Words failed him again; he began to stammer in his unsuccessful attempt to express the first vague stirrings of the future he… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
If anyone can learn anything, they can learn how to appreciate silence and stop every now and then. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . . — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent. — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us, — Sandra Fluke Copy Share Image
To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
“Silence is not a fucking virtue. It’s a disease—a cancer that eats away at you and fucks with your head.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Silence is the greatest master teacher. It says nothing, yet teaches everything.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
“The silence was suddenly too charged, his face too beautiful in the light.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Your silence there is better than your spite, For who can rail so long as they can write?” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
