Communication Quote by William Carlos Williams

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,…

— Rumi

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

— Ramana Maharshi

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling…

— Paul Tillich

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

— George Steiner

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

— Sigurd F. Olson

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.

— Sivananda

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Silence is the only language god speaks.

— Charles Simic

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

— David James Duncan

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

— Rumi

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away…

— Rumi