20 Quotes On The Power Of Silence

20 Quotes On The Power of Silence

SILENCE:

The act of being silent has its region in a variety of extraordinary conditions we may locate ourselves in. Nonreaction can supply us time to think, process, and create a hole between a stimulus and our response to make positive that we cross ahead in a deliberate and positive way. Silence can also be used as a device to exercise self-control. In social conditions the place we would usually blurt out a response, interject with our opinion, or interrupt others, the mindful act of being silent can now not solely support our relationships with different humans if we as an alternative pick out to listen, however it can additionally assist us suppose earlier than we speak.

Ultimately, when we interrupt the brains default response, and alternatively make the choice to sit down again and be silent, we can turn out to be higher at being in the moment, listening, taking in our surroundings, wondering about what we’re doing, and when we do select to act, it’s aligned with the individual we desire to be.

Here are a few prices on silence to assist us apprehend the notion a little better.

QUOTES ON SILENCE:

“Let silence be your goal for the most part; say only what is necessary, and be brief about it. On the rare occasions when you’re called upon to speak, then speak, but never about banalities like gladiators, horses, sports, food and drink—common-place stuff...”

- Epictetus

“We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak.”

- Zeno

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

- Chaim Potok

“It is better either to be silent or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at Hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”

- Pythagoras

“Better to trip with the feet than the tongue.”

- Zeno

“Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.”

- Epictetus

“Silence is a lesson learned through life’s many sufferings”

- Seneca

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”

- Rumi

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.”

- Khalil Gibran

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”

- Bertrand Russell

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”

- Robert Lynd

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

- Muhammad Ali

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

- Will Rogers

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

- Rumi

“Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.”

- Brennan Manning

“Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.”

- Eckhart Tolle

“Let silence take you to the core of life.”

- Rumi

“Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.”

- Richard Yates

Compiled by- Abraham Adesanya