We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.
People who make no noise are dangerous.
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
Noise: a stench in the ear.
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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