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Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.
― Buddha
The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.
― Alfred Brendel
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
― Charles de Gaulle
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
― Shannon L. Alder
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
― Dejan Stojanovic
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
― Balthasar Gracian
Silence is the eternal duty of man.
― Thomas Carlyle
Work hard in silence, let your success make the noise.
― Frank Ocean
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.
― Ram Dass
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
― Dalai Lama
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
― Mark Helprin
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
― Thomas Carlyle
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
― Phyllis McGinley
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
― Nicholas Sparks
Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Inner silence is the mother of all talents.
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
― Thomas Carlyle
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
― Mother Teresa
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Silence is the mother of truth.
― Benjamin Disraeli
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
― Karen Marie Moning
The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion.
― Kapil Gupta
The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know; it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge.
― Miguel Ruiz
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
― Francis Bacon
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.
― John Boyle O’Reilly
Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands.
― Pico Lyer
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
― Dante Alighieri
If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
― Pythagoras
Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.
― Euripides
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
― Pythagoras
Silence is a source of great strength.
― Lao Tzu
The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
― Clarice Lispector
If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
― Albert Einstein
Deep rivers run quiet.
― Haruki Murakami
A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.
― Rumi
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
― Walter Bagehot
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
― James Stephens
All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.
― Patrick Lindsay
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
― Helen Keller
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions.
― Elbert Hubbard
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.
― Robert Greene
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
― Napoleon Bonaparte
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
― Marcus Aurelius
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
― Marian Wright Edelman
Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
― Hans Margolius
Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.
― Osho
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
― Seneca, The Elder
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
― Samuel Johnson
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.
― Federico Fellini
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.
― Albert Einstein
The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes.
― Rick Rubin
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
― Cato The Elder
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.
― Plutarch
If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you’ll be surprised what goes through your head.
― Sandra Bullock
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
― Rumi
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
― Mark Twain
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
― Muhammad Ali
A silent man is easily reputed wise.
― Frederick William Robertson
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
― Lance Morrow
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
― Meister Eckhart
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
― Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The space, the gaps, the pauses, the silence – those things that allow us to regenerate and recharge – had all but disappeared in my own life and in the lives of so many I knew.
― Arianna Huffington
Silence gives us space to process our experiences and soak in our surroundings.
― Cati Vanden Breul
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.
― Elizabeth Gilbert
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
― Bob Dylan
Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.
― William Shakespeare
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot.
― Jack Kerouac
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
― Thomas Carlyle
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
― Leonardo da Vinci
Silence is more eloquent than words.
― Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
― Confucius
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
― Charles Caleb Colton
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
― Charlotte Brontë
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.
― Gordon Hempton
Listen to silence. It has so much to say.
― Rumi
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
― Pythagoras
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
― Charles Caleb Colton
Silence is the cornerstone of character.
― Charles Alexander Eastman
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
― Oliver Hereford
Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
― Tom Ford
Let silence take you to the core of life.
― Rumi
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
― Myrtle Reed
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
― W. S. Merwin
Hope will never be silent.
― Harvey Milk
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
― Henri Frederic Amiel
Great souls suffer in silence.
― Friedrich Schiller
Real action is in silent moments.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your very silence shows you agree.
― Euripides
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
― Josh Billinngs
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
― Chaim Potok
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
― Shannon L. Alder
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
― Francis Beaumont
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
― Martgin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is the wit of fools.
― Anatole France
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
― Albert Einstein
Silence about a thing just magnifies it.
― Tennessee Williams
Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths.
― Macrina Wiederkehr
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
― Victor Hugo
I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.
― Soren Kierkegaard
The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.
― Naval Ravikant
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
― Sri Chinmoy
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.
― Eckhart Tolle
Withdraw into yourself, perceive there a silence as old as being, even older.
― Emil Cioran
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
― Blaise Pascal
We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.
― Amit Ray
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
― Deepak Chopra
Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.
― Robert Adams
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
― George Bernard Shaw
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
― Norman Vincent Peale
Sound is our mind, silence is our being.
― Osho
Silence is so freaking loud.
― Sarah Dessen
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
― Socrates
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
― Julius Lester
Silence is more musical than any song.
― Christina Rossetti
The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.
― Haruki Murakami
Silence is also a conversation.
― Ramana Maharshi
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
― Simon Van Booy
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence is safer than speech.
― Epictetus
Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts.
― José Rodrigues Miguéis
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
― Craig Bruce
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
― Abraham Lincoln
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
― Virginia Woolf
Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work.
― Les Brown
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
― George Henry Lewes
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
― Susan Sontag
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the silence.
― Anthony de Mello
Speech is the small change of silence.
― George Meredith
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
― Publilius Syrus
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
― Elbert Hubbard
Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
― Mandy Hale
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
― George Eliot
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
― Henry David Thoreau
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
― William S. Burroughs
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
― Benjamin Franklin
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
― Epictetus
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
― German Proverb
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
― Napoleon Hill
It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
― Alex Trebek
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.
― Thomas Carlyle
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
― William Shakespeare
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
― Pythagoras
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
― Christian Nestell Bovee
I was quiet, but I was not blind.
― Jane Austen
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
― Iain Duncan Smith
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
― Carol Bartz
The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
― Rumi
When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise.
― Elizabeth Eulberg
Take time to be quiet.
― Zig Ziglar
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
― Stephen Hawking
Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.
― Kathryn L. Nelson
You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
― Stephen Cbosky
The more you know, the less you need to say.
― Jim Rohn
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
― Blaise Pascal
Quiet people always know more than they seem.
― Criss Jami
Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.
― Aeschylus
You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
― Sathya Sai Baba
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
― Euripides
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