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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

Justin Timberlake

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

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.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

Leopold Stokowski

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.