Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Silence Quotes

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

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It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

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Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

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Her silence was the blank space between the words.

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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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