When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest eve….

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence..

Silence is the garment of light..

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us.".

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this..

This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call t….

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence..

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories..

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections..

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence..

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest..

I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witle….

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning..

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence..

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest..

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut..

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do..

But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was his second langu….

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more..

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something..