Top 100 Silence Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

2. “Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

3. “Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

— Epictetus

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4. “Silence gives answers.”

— Rumi

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5. “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

— Confucius

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6. “Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”

— Samuel Beckett

7. “Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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8. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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9. “Silence is a source of great strength.”

— Lao Tzu

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10. “Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Rumi

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12. “To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”

— Elie Wiesel

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13. “There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.”

— Meister Eckhart

14. “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

— Lao Tzu

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15. “It is only in alert silence that truth can be.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

16. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

— Rumi

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17. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

— Desmond Tutu

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18. “Silence is the best reply to a fool.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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19. “No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.”

— Osho

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20. “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

— Rumi

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21. “Silence is sometimes the best answer.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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22. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

— Rumi

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23. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

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24. “The rest, is silence.”

— William Shakespeare

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25. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.”

— Rumi

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26. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

— Desmond Tutu

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27. “We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

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28. “The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

29. “Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind. Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.”

— Lao Tzu

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30. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

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31. “Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

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32. “Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.”

— Spanish proverb

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33. “Listen to the sound of silence.”

— Paul Simon

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34. “In your quietest moments appear your most true thoughts.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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35. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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36. “Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

37. “Your silence will not protect you.”

— Audre Lorde

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38. “Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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39. “Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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40. “I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.”

— Umar

41. “Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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42. “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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43. “Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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44. “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”

— Maurice Switzer

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45. “When you can bear your own silence, you are free.”

— Mooji

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46. “Silence and solitude, the soul’s best friends.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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47. “You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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48. “Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”

— Emily Dickinson

49. “Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

50. “Silence is also conversation.”

— Ramana Maharshi