Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we… — Laozi
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can… — Rachel Naomi Remen
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we… — Mother Teresa
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and… — Sigurd F. Olson
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker… — Gregory Bateson
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had… — Bernie Krause
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would… — Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. — May Sarton
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the… — Khalil Gibran
We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net… — Diane Ackerman
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they… — Eudora Welty
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a… — Charles Cumming
Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals. — Gunilla Brodde Norris
I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence… — Conrad Hilton
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter. — Marvin Bell
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one… — Dennis Nurkse
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. — Nana Mouskouri
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no… — Rick Springfield
The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence. — Ken Blanchard
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,… — Helene Cixous
...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote.… — Linda Ronstadt

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