Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Quotations
Silence
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When the world is too loud, silence is my only voice.
-Nouf Alfadl
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
