List Of 50 Quotes About Quietness From The Best Minds (Ever):
#1 Fernando Pessoa
“There’s a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness”
#2 Naide P Obiang
“Do not mistake quietness for weakness. Evil is often better addressed in silence.”
#3 Zen Proverb
”Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”
#4 William Penn
”True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
#5 Rumi
”Listen to silence. It has so much to say.”
#6 Curtis Tyrone Jones
“The best piece of life’s magnificence is your slice of internal peace.”
#7 Paul Morabito
“Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.”
#8 Robert Greene
“Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, the quiet mind is richer than a crown…”
#9 John Fowles
“It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other.”
#10 Franz Kafka
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.”
#11 Mandy Hale
”Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”
#12 Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.”
#13 Charlotte Eriksson
“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”
#14 Jay Woodman
“Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch – we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.”
#15 Ralph Waldo Emerson
”Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.”
#16 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It’s your silent time within your own private sanctuary.”
#17 Rollo May
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
#18 Calvin Coolidge
“You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said.”
#19 Ali Ibn Abi Talib R.A
“Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.”
#20 Napoleon Bonaparte
”The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
#21 Khaled Hosseini
“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.”
#22 Bryant McGill
“Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.”
#23 Patricia Highsmith
“My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.”
#24 Charles Blow
“It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.”
#25 Emily Dickinson
”Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”
#26 Mary McGarry Morris
”I’m a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.”
#27 Munia Khan
“Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.”
#28 Euripides
”The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”
#29 Christopher Pike
“There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”
#30 Albert Camus
“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
#31 Iain Duncan Smith
”Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.”
#32 James Stephens
”Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.”
#33 Paul Tillich
”Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”
#34 Joel Annesley
“If you keep looking within, you will find stillness, a tranquillity that you’ve never experienced before.”
#35 Paramahansa Yogananda
“Through the portals of silence, the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.”
#36 Emily Bronte
”If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
#37 Bohumil Hrabal
“The closest one person can get to another is through silence.”
#38 Henry David Thoreau
”I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
#39 Stephen Chbosky
“I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”
#40 Dalai Lama
“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”
#41 Susan L. Taylor
”We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.”
#42 Nicholas Sparks
“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”
#43 Hans Margolius
”Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
#44 Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
#45 Albert Einstein
”I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.”
#46 Thomas Kempis
”Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.”
#47 Mandy Hale
“Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”
#48 Ieyasu Tokugawa
”Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.”
#49 Proverb
“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than the silence.”
#50 Helen Hayes
”We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.”
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