Cornerstones

Silence

Window Rock, Arizona, 1964, Image by John McKinney

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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