It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
Silence is a source of great strength.
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
The rest, is silence.
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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.
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.