Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
Quotations
Silence
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.
-Steve Maraboli
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
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"
