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The Commonplace Book

A Digital Florilegium

§ On Silence

What speaks between the words

"Silence is a source of great strength."

— Lao Tzu

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

— Francis Bacon

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

— William Penn

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

— Ram Dass

"Listen to silence. It has so much to say."

— Rumi

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

— Blaise Pascal

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

— Mark Twain

"In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves."

— Rumi

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

— Thomas Carlyle

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them."

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

— George Eliot

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Speech is silver, silence is golden."

— Thomas Carlyle

✎ Patience is not passive; it is active waiting.

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