365 quotes found
“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”
“Silence is the mother of truth.”
“Silence is a powerful tool.”
“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”
“In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)”
“The more silent is my mind,The more it speaks;Wisdom is a light divine,And its shadow a mystique!”
“I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.”
“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
“If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won't need to listen to my words.”
“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as w...”
“My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening”
“Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.”
“...people would tell you much more than you expected to if you were generically presentable and left silence next to them like a friendly stranger; it was like they were waiting for some friendly s...”
“I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.”
“There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.”
“When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.”
“Fatuous words I don't trust you I trust silenceMore than beauty more than anythingA festival of understanding”
“The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, thes...”
“Moments spent alone make us realize the value of our own thoughts. Value your solitude.”
“How does something so invisible make one so invincible?”
