Quotes about Silence
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
— Mother Teresa
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
— Mother Teresa
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
— Mother Teresa
For every struggle that Joe survived, For every dispute he endured, to rise, Joe will go down in history as a model for champions to come. While Frazier was a man of few words, Ali was a world of mouth, but he found his place in history. Now his heart can express him well. Joe Frazier was a silent warrior, whom Ali silently admired. One could not rise without the other.
— Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
— Muhammad Ali
Either we "keep faith with Darwin" and embrace postmodernism, or we keep faith with a personal God who is not silent—whose Logos is the source of unified, universal, capital-T Truth.
— Nancy Pearcey
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
— Nikki Giovanni
I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
And down the long and silent street,The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,Crept like a frightened girl.
— Oscar Wilde
A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.
— Oswald Chambers
If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.
— Oswald Chambers