Silence Quotes
3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors
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Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
— Carl Sandburg
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There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable
— Wayne Dyer
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There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only…
— Peter L. Berger
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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better…
— Werner Heisenberg
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No one nor anything can silence me.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a…
— Maureen Dowd
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When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it.…
— Meher Baba
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Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
— Robert Fripp
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The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
— Eckhart Tolle
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If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount…
— Brené Brown
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Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for…
— Nick Cave
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Imagination They say adults have no imagination. Not true. Just instead of dinosaurs and spaceships, they imagine silence and the new babysitter bent over the…
— Unknown Author
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Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
— Bliss Carman
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A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while…
— Ron Chernow
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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you…
— M. John Harrison
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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy…
— Mary Stewart
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Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten…
— Amy Goodman
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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if…
— Auberon Waugh
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Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
— Orhan Pamuk
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Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what…
— Gangaji
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When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
— Gangaji
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