He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
Quotations
Silence
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
