The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.

Chaim Potok
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Silence is the mother of truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

  2. Silence is a powerful tool. - Na

  3. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. - Napoleon Hill

  4. In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75) - Swami Satchidananda

  5. The more silent is my mind, The more it speaks; Wisdom is a light divine, And its shadow a mystique! - Neelam Saxena Chandra

More Quotes By Chaim Potok
  1. Something that is yours forever is never precious

  2. Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find...

  3. I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and...

  4. ...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

  5. Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man?

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