Silence Quotes

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.