Cornerstones
Silence
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.
Albert Einstein
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job 29:21 (KJV)
Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Dalai Lama
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
Pythagoras
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
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Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
Pablo Picasso
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Thomas Carlyle
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
Unknown
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Mother Teresa
The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Brontë
Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
Annie Besant
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
George Steiner
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Rumi
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