Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds,… — Sakya Pandita
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,… — Joshua Chamberlain
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. — Ramana Maharshi
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi
Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the… — Sri Chinmoy
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling… — Sri Chinmoy
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence — Lupe Fiasco
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on. — Maurice Blanchot
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain… — Harry Elmer Barnes
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence… — Harriet Lerner
Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance… — Luce Irigaray
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song.… — Jack Kornfield
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… — Thomas Merton
I can hear the roar of women's silence — Thomas Sankara
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a… — Thomas Sankara
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It… — Dave Eggers
My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone… — Abbas Kiarostami
Being a lady does not require silence. — Betty Ford
If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress. — Jeff Buckley
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One. — Anandamayi Ma
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living… — Sogyal Rinpoche
There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go… — Patton Oswalt
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. — Pindar

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