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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.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
The more you know the less you need to say.
The more you know the less you need to say.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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.