Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence
that is better. Silence is deep as read more

Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence
that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow
as Time.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke read more

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how read more

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny read more

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we
give no just occasion for them.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to read more

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, read more

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

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

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