Quotes about Silence

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.

Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silent where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

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.

It is the little rift within the lute,That by and by will make the music mute,And ever widening slowly silence all.

but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.

Use your ears more than your mouth.

Everyone knows about the problem, but no one talks about it openly.

the eye is the window to the soul, and from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, why can't we all be blind and dumb?

Because words unsaid can change a course as surely as words said.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.