Silence Quotes - Page 3

• 

  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  246 Copy quote

• As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.

  Trevanian

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.77, Broadway Books

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Ocean, Creativity, Different

  5 Copy quote

• Real creativity comes only out of silence.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Creativity

  6 Copy quote

• The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

  Peter of Alcantara

  Soul, Enjoy, Contemplating

  19 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Softball, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man's life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act.

  Mabel Collins

  Heart, Men, Essence

  Mabel Collins (2007). “Light on the Path”, p.42, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Men, Suffering, Injustice

  15 Copy quote

• Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.

  Richard Maurice Bucke

  Pain, Ocean, Meditation

  Richard Maurice Bucke (2012). “Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.329, Courier Corporation

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sound, New Life

  7 Copy quote

• You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Thinking, Opportunity, Ideas

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Communicate

  5 Copy quote

• A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Home, Air

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

  Leonard Peltier

  Horse, Crazy, Native American

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

  Samuel Johnson

  Difficult, Has Beens, Suspended

  Samuel Johnson (1997). “The Sayings of Doctor Johnson”, p.10, Gerald Duckworth & Co

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Way, Silent

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Two, Simplicity, Attraction

  8 Copy quote

• Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

  Eric Lau

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Knowing

  54 Copy quote

• Meditation is the action of silence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Acting, Action

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.54, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

  Rumi

  Flower, Tongue, Customs

  9 Copy quote

• There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

  Frank Bettger

  Art, Eloquence

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even the silence
  has a story to tell you.
  Just listen. Listen.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Stories, Just Listen

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.241, Penguin

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

  George Eliot

  Love, Long, Silent

  4 Copy quote
• 

  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

  130 Copy quote

  Show source