Quotes about Silence

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind.

Don't fear His silence. Use it to examine your heart and motives. Listen expectantly for the silence to be broken by the glory of His manifested presence once again in your life.

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

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

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

Why should I keep holiday / When other men have none? / Why but because, when these are gay, / I sit and mourn alone? / And why, when mirth unseals all tongues, / Should mine alone be dumb? / Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs, / And now their hour is come.

From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?