Quotes about Silence

They're so silent!" I said. "Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.

This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy

This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

No war or battle sound was heard the world around.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.