Quotes about Silence

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

God would never have granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.

God would have never granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills.