You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Silence
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
-Muhammad Ali
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Nights in Rodanthe"
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Things that are real are given and received in silence. God has been everlastingly working in silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His infinite silence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Meher Baba"
