ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONīut there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Be silent, if you choose but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it. PYTHAGORASĪll I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. We need silence to be able to touch souls. MUHAMMAD ALIĮxperience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer. SILENCE BECOMES COWARDICE WHEN OCCASION DEMANDS SPEAKING OUT THE WHOLE TRUTH AND ACTING ACCORDINGLY. SILENCE IS NOT ONLY NEVER THIRSTY, BUT ALSO NEVER BRINGS PAIN OR SORROW. If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
RAM DASSīetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Silence is argument carried out by other means. Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence. In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.
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There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. Ralph Waldo EmersonĪ sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. Emily DickinsonĪ fool is known by his speech and a wise man by silence. The quieter you become the more you are able to hear. Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ELBERT HUBBARDĪll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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