200+ Powerful and Life Changing Silence Quotes | 2022 | Where SILENCE speaks more than WORDS |
POWERFUL AND LIFE CHANGING SILENCE QUOTES (2022)
1) ”Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.”-Helen Keller
2) ”Quiet people have the loudest minds.”-Stephen Hawking
3) ”Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.”-Marian Wright Edelman
4) ”Simply wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you.”-Franz Kafka
5) ”Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”-Marcus Aurelius
6) ”The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”-Napoleon Bonaparte
7) ”It’s important to have quiet time and isolation.”-John Burnside
8) ”Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”-Hans Margolius
9) ”If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.”-John Bunyan
10) ”Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”-Robert Louis Stevenson
11) ”Quieting your mind is the doorway to a peaceful soul.”-Clyde Lee Denis
12) ”The quiet mind is richer than a crown.”-Robert Greene
13) ”A quiet mind cureth all.”-Robert Burton
14) ”It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”-Mahatma Gandhi
15) ”All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions.”-Elbert Hubbard
16) ”My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.”-Hazrat Inayat Khan
17) ”In quietness the soul expands.”- Rockwell Kent
18) ”Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.”-Helen Keller
19) ”All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.”-Patrick Lindsay
20) ”Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.”-James Stephens
21) ”An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.”-Walter Bagehot
22) ”A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.”-Rumi
23) ”Deep rivers run quiet.”-Haruki Murakami
24) ”If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.”-Albert Einstein
25) ”Quiet people always know more than they seem.”-Criss Jami
26) ”A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”-Bertrand Russell
27) ”All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”-Blaise Pascal
28) ”The more you know, the less you need to say.”-Jim Rohn
29) ”You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”-Stephen Cbosky
30) ”Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.”-Kathryn L. Nelson
31) ”When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”-Henry J. Kaiser
32) ”Take time to be quiet.”-Zig Ziglar
33) ”We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.”-Susann L. Taylor
34) ”When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise.”-Elizabeth Eulberg
35) ”The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.”-Rumi
36) ”If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.”-Carol Bartz
37) ”One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.”-Sarah Orne Jewett
38) ”Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.”-Iain Duncan Smith
39) ”I was quiet, but I was not blind.”-Jane Austen
40) ”Quiet is the new loud.”-Joe Robtail
41) ”The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”-Euripides
42) ”In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.”-Rachel Naomi Remen
43) ”To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about.”-Alan Watts
44) ”You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.”-Sathya Sai Baba
45) ”Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”-Aeschylus
46) ”By silence, I hear other men’s imperfections and conceal my own.”-Citium Zeno
47) ”Silence, healing.”-Heraclitus
48) ”Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries.”-Wayne Dyer
49) ”Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”-Thomas Carlyle
50) ”Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot.”-Jack Kerouac
51) ”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
52) ”Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.”-William Shakespeare
53) ”Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.”-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
54) ”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
55) ”Silence gives us space to process our experiences and soak in our surroundings.”-Cati Vanden Breul
56) ”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
57) ”Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
58) ”In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.”-Meister Eckhart
59) ” 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
60) ”Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”-Bob Dylan
61) ”If you face God in prayer and silence, god will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”-Mother Teresa
62) ”Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”-Charles de Gaulle
63) ”A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.”-Emile M. Cioran
64) ”Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”-Benjamin Franklin
65) ”Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.”-Samuel Johnson
66) ”It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.”-Seneca, The Elder
67) ”Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.”-Osho
68) ”Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”-Mark Twain
69) ”Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.”-Christian Nestell Bovee
70) ”Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”-Pythagoras
71) ”The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”-William Shakespeare
72) ”Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.”-Thomas Carlyle
73) ”It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.”-Alex Trebek
74) ”Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”-Napoleon Hill
75) ”The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”-Edgar Allan Poe
76) ”Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.”-German Proverb
77) ”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
78) ”Never miss a good chance to shut up.”-Will Rogers
79) ”Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”-Epictetus
80) ”As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.”-Benjamin Franklin
81) ”Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”-William S. Burroughs
82) ”In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”-Henry David Thoreau
83) ”Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”-Mahatma Gandhi
84) ”Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”-George Eliot
85) ”Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”-Mandy Hale
86) ”He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”-Elbert Hubbard
87) ”I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.”-Publilius Syrus
88) ”Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.”-Jean-Paul Sartre
89) ”Speech is the small change of silence.”-George Meredith
90) ”When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the silence.”-Anthony de Mello
91) ”Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.”-Phyllis McGinley
92) ”Noise: a stench in the ear.”-Ambrose Bierce
93) ”Silence is so freaking loud.”-Sarah Dessen
94) ”Sound is our mind, silence is our being.”-Osho
95) ”Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”-Henry David Thoreau
96) ”Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.”-Norman Vincent Peale
97) ”The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’–Alfred Brendel
98) ”Within each of us, there is silence. A silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.”-Gunilla Norris
99) ”Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.”-George Bernard Shaw
100) ”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
101) ”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
102) ”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
103) ”The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”-Blaise Pascal
104) ”Withdraw into yourself, perceive there a silence as old as being, even older.”-Emil Cioran
105) ”The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.”-Eckhart Tolle
106) ”Meditation is silence, energizing and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.”-Sri Chinmoy
107) ”Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
108) ”Inner silence is the mother of all talents.”-–Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
109) ”The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.”-Naval Ravikant
110) ”Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.”-Buddha
111) ”External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.”-Ram Dass
112) ”Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.”-Eckhart Tolle
113) ”I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.”-Soren Kierkegaard
114) ”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
115) ”A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”-Dante Alighieri
116) ”Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”-Marcus Tullius Cicero
117) ”Silence is the virtue of fools.”-Francis Bacon
118) ”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.”-Don Miguel Ruiz
119) ”Silence is the mother of truth.”-Benjamin Disraeli
120) ”It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”-Victor Hugo
121) ”Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths.”-Macrina Wiederkehr
122) ”Silence about a thing just magnifies it.”-Tennessee Williams
123) ”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
125) ”As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”-Albert Einstein
126) ”Silence is the wit of fools.”-Anatole France
127) ”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”-Martgin Luther King, Jr.
128) ”When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”-Ansel Adams
129) ”The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”-Karen Marie Moning
130) ”It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.”-Francis Beaumont
131) ”Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.”-Balthasar Gracian
132) ”A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.”-Shannon L. Alder
133) ”Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”-Josh Billinngs
134) ”Your very silence shows you agree.”-Euripides
135) ”To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”-Abraham Lincoln
136) ”If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.”-Pythagoras
137) ”The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion.”-Kapil Gupta
138) ”Real action is in silent moments.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
139) ”We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
140)”I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”-Aeschylus
141) ”Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”-Nicholas Sparks
142) ”Great souls suffer in silence.”- Friedrich Schiller
143) ”Work hard in silence, let your success make the noise.”-Frank Ocean
144) ”Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”-Henri Frederic Amiel
145) ”Silence is the eternal duty of man.”-Thomas Carlyle
146) ”Hope will never be silent.”-Harvey Milk
147) ”Never be bullied into silence.”-Harvey Fierstein
148) ”Now all my teachers are dead except silence.”-W. S. Merwin
149) ”Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.”-Myrtle Reed
150) ”Let silence take you to the core of life.”-Rumi
151) ”Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.”-Tom Ford
152) ”A man is known by the silence he keeps.”-Oliver Hereford
153) ”Silence is the cornerstone of character.”-Charles Alexander Eastman
154) ”Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.”-Charles Caleb Colton
155) ”A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”-Pythagoras
156) ”Listen to silence. It has so much to say.”
157) ”Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”-Gordon Hempton
158) ”Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.”-Charlotte Brontë
159) ”When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”-Charles Caleb Colton
160) ”Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
161) ”Silence is more eloquent than words.”-Thomas Carlyle
162) ”Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”-Leonardo da Vinci
163) ”The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”-Clarice Lispector
164) ”Silence is a source of great strength.”
165) ”Silence is better than unmeaning words.”-Pythagoras
166) ”Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.”-Euripides
167) ”Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”-Francis Bacon
168) ”Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”-Susan Sontag
169) ”Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.”-George Henry Lewes
170) ”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
171) ”One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.”-Virginia Woolf
172) ”Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”-Thomas Carlyle
173) ”Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”-Abraham Lincoln
174) ”Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.”-Craig Bruce
175) ”We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”-Martgin Luther King, Jr.
176) ”To hear, one must be silent.”-Ursula K. Le Guin
177) ”Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts.”-José Rodrigues Miguéis
178) ”Silence is safer than speech.”-Epictetus
179) ”Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”-Marcus Tullius Cicero
180) ”The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.”-Simon Van Booy
181) ”Silence is also a conversation.”-Ramana Maharshi
182) ”Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.”-Mark Helprin
183) ”It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.”-Thomas Merton
184) ”Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
185) ”After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”-Aldous Huxley
186) ”The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.”-Haruki Murakami
187) ”Silence is more musical than any song.”-Christina Rossetti
188) ”Silence is exhilarating at first – as noise is – but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.”-Edward Hoagland
189) ”The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
190) ”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
191) ”Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.”
192) ”Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”-Emily Dickinson
193) ”Silence is sometimes the best answer.”-Dalai Lama
194) ”Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.”-John Boyle O’Reilly
195) ”In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”-Rumi
196) ”The truth hurts, but silence kills.”-Mark Twain
197) ”A silent man is easily reputed wise.”- Frederick William Robertson
198) ”Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.”-Muhammad Ali
199) ”The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”-Mark Twain
200) ”If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you’ll be surprised what goes through your head.”-Sandra Bullock
201) ”In the silence behind what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long.”-Andreas Fransson
202) ”A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.”-Plutarch
203) ”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
204) ”The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes.”-Rick Rubin
205) ”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
206) ”If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”-Emily Bronte
207) ”I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.”-Albert Einstein
208) ”If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.”-Federico Fellini
209) ”Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.”-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
210) ”Nothing is more useful than silence.”-Menander
211) ”Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”-Napoleon Bonaparte
