Quotes on Silence Is

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

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

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended._x000D_ _x000D_ In Illumination, all things appear as is. _x000D_ _x000D_ Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom. _x000D_ _x000D_ The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

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

You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.