I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus Silence
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. Henry David Thoreau Love Wisdom
Have you ever been to the proper desert? The most extraordinary thing is the silence. There's nothing to move out there. I got such a buzz out of it. Kristin Scott Thomas Silence
In silence we must warp much of our life, because it is too fine for speech, because also we cannot explain it to others, and because somewhat we cannot yet understand. Ralph Waldo Emerson Silence
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. Samuel Beckett Silence
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. Pindar Truth Silence
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? Federico Fellini
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. Aristotle
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras Silence
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Humor Silence People
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett