Quotes About Wisdom And Silence

#1. I abstain from the people who consider insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. And I abstain from those who consider chatter wisdom and silence ignorance.

Kahlil Gibran

#2. Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.

Raphael Zernoff

#3. Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Myrtle Reed

#4. I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller

#6. In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,
in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night.

Debasish Mridha

#7. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

Alaric Hutchinson

#8. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

John Milton

#9. Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#10. Whenever you feel me,
just call me
With the silence of your soul,
and with the softness of your love.
I will be with you,
With the magic of my love.
You may not see me,
But you will feel me.
You will hear my song
In the depth of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#11. The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#12. There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#13. There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.

Linda Hogan

#14. When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can and will be related back to you as knowledge, yet you have no way of knowing how you assimilated that wisdom.

Lujan Matus

#15. Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

#16. There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it's scary. Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day, it's not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.

Mitch Lucker

#18. When I listen and enjoy the deepest silence I hear the sound of universal love and lose myself completely.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Napoleon Hill

#21. An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message.

Rashmit Kalra

#22. When I was looking at the moon, I saw your eyes looking at me. I felt lights of love softly touching me, in the silence I heard your sweet music of joy, and then I got lost in your love.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

#24. We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever ...

Luis Marques

#25. All is contained within the silence of death, the quietest and the loudest sound in the universe.

Forrest Curran

#26. If we can't solve the problem, resolve the difference, then embrace the diversity, bring the silence, time will solve the problem and peace will prevail.

Debasish Mridha

#27. It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Thomas A Kempis

#28. In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

Angeles Arrien

#29. real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. Flowers grows in silence, quietly, slowly, passionately, with great love and with all its power just perfectly.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.

Amit Ray

#32. Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak.

G.K. Chesterton

#33. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

#34. Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It's no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.

Cristen Rodgers

#35. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

T. S. Eliot

#36. He set down his chili dog, and after a pondering moment of silence, he replied with words of wisdom I'd never forget: "Fuck women. Fuck school. Fuck money. Go write some books, get a good agent, lift weights, get tattoos, and never do a film with Keanu Reeves.

Jon Konrath

#37. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napoleon Hill

#38. The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe.

Albert Camus

#39. We have a very real enemy who thrives on our silence. He doesn't want us to be in fellowship, sharing our hearts and seeking wisdom on how to live lives that glorify God in spite of the darkness we feel.

Angie Smith

#40. In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

Sheng Yen

#41. Be good and kind to yourself in silence when you are all alone, that is all that matters.

Debasish Mridha

#42. Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought.

Deepak Chopra

#43. The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in the world. It is a very sacred temple. To spend time in silence before the mystery of your body brings you toward wisdom and holiness.

John O'Donohue

#44. When the moon kisses the stas in the silence with her lights of love, my heart dances with ecstasy and beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Dejan Stojanovic

#46. The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image - And this is the silence of wisdom.

Edgar Lee Masters

#47. The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is to talk little, but to hear much. . . . - SAMUEL & SARAH ADAMS, THE COMPLETE SERVANT, 1825

Julie Klassen

#48. In the depth of silence
be speechless
to listen the song of life,
song of creation of life,
primordial song.
Be silent, and listen to your heart.
Can you hear
The song of life,
The song of love,
The song of creation?

Debasish Mridha

#49. It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

Dejan Stojanovic

#50. It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

Elizabeth Towne

#52. Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#53. We can't imagine deserts without camel caravans and we can't imagine wisdom without the teachings of solitude and silence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. What is silence? It is a bridge to the land of wisdom! What is fearless and free mind? It is a bridge to the land of wisdom! What is knowing other cultures, other opinions? It is a bridge to the land of wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#55. Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

Ajahn Brahm

#56. A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Saadi

#57. The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#58. All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

Carson McCullers

#60. The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment's pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.

Barbara Kingsolver

#61. The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Baltasar Gracian

#62. Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Deepak Chopra