- Silence is the ultimate reality. Robert Adams
- Silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli
- Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras
- Only silence communicates the truth as it is. Rajneesh
- Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. Isaac Newton
- Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. Pythagoras
- If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two. Hebrew Proverb
- It is only in alert silence that truth can be. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The truth is known in silence. Be still and know. Leonard Jacobson
- Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Jeanette Winterson
- In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words. August Strindberg
- Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself. Mahatma Gandhi
- Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms. Dorothy Richardson
- Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy. Rajneesh
- A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. Saint Francis de Sales
- Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self. Ramana Maharshi
- Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth. Barbara De Angelis
- When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. Sri Aurobindo
- Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. Aldous Huxley
- Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. Erich Schiffmann
- Religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love. Thomas Merton
- The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. Peter of Alcantara
- The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One. Anandamayi Ma
- Zen training is designed to teach that truth cannot be described verbally, but can exist only in silence. Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams
- Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind. Ken Cohen
- Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously. Luther Standing Bear
- Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. George Steiner
- Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. Ahmad Shamloo
- 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. Miguel Angel Ruiz
- We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation. Samael Aun Weor
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
- There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. Sri Aurobindo
- There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. Sri Aurobindo
- You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. Alison McGhee
- Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing. Jacqueline Winspear
- Why is silence the greatest teacher? Because real truth never speaks. What would be the point? Truth simply is and so does not need to be reminded of this. On the other hand, illusion cannot be convinced for it doesn’t actually exist except as a thought, belief or concept. Michael Jeffreys
