QUOTES

Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.  (Plutarch)

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose.  There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.  (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.  (Leonardo da Vinci)

Listen to silence.  It has so much to say.  (Rumi)

Silence is sometimes the best answer.   (Dalai Lama)

Saying nothing sometimes says the most.  (Emily Dickinson)

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.  (Elbert Hubbard)

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.   (William Faulkner)

In the silence of the heart God speaks.  If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you.   (Mother Teresa)

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.  (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.   (Charles de Gaulle)

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.  (Federico Fellini)

Silence is pure and holy.  It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.  (Nicholas Sparks)

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.  (Eckart Tolle)

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.  (Louise Bourgeois)

Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts.  (Jose Rodrigues Migueis)

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.  (Claude Monet)

Only Silence can reach that dimension of reality that is too deep for words.  (Thomas Merton)