Silent Wisdom Quotes

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

The radiant one in me has never said a word.

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

Even silence is so articulate at times.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.

Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.

Find a voice in a whisper.

In every moment of every day, through a thousand individual manifestations of Itself, is Divinity revealing Itself. Yet we do not see. Or we see, but do not believe. We do not believe the evidence of our own eyes. We do not hear the truth in the sounds of silence.

Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.