I have a cold that is clogging up my ears so I can't her very well lately.  On account of this, I'm listing eleven quotes related to noise, silence, and hearing.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
- Elizabeth Goudge

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
- William Shakespeare

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Napoleon

Silence is not a thing we make; it is something into which we enter.
It is always there.  All we can make is noise.
- Mother Maribel of Wantage

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
- Peter Minard

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
- Mother Teresa

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
- Thomas Fuller

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
- Visions of Gregorian Chants

(John of the Cross) points out that the divine music can best be
heard in solitude and silence.  The sonorous music is not a physical
sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the
senses.  Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises
that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels.
- Charles Cumming

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson