Silent Knowledge Quotes

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.

The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it, just pictures.

The only way you get to be a “wise man” is to outlive your contemporaries and keep your mouth shut.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.