Silence Quotes - Page 105

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.

There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye.

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt.