Best Silence Is Wisdom
354 Silence Is quotes by 266 unique authors
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In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
— Gangaji
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Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter…
— C.S. Lewis
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Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.
— Fred Rogers
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
— Marianne Williamson
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The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
— Joseph Conrad
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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
— Thomas Keating
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Silence is the best response to a fool...
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Silence is the best reply to a fool.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.
— Leonard Jacobson
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When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can…
— Thomas Merton
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Silence is God's first language.
— John of the Cross
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Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
— Heinrich Heine
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This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to…
— Bell Hooks
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I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.
— Mike Nichols
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GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS A SECRET. THE…
— Michael Jackson
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God is to creation as silence is to sound.
— Mark R. Woodward
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Silence is the cornerstone of character.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we…
— Richard Rohr
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Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your…
— Rajneesh
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Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world…
— David Byrne
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
— Adrienne Rich
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