Literary history and the present are dark with silences . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot. Tillie Olsen
Silence is the mother of truth.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Silence is a powerful tool.
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Na
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Napoleon Hill
In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)
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Swami Satchidananda
The more silent is my mind, The more it speaks; Wisdom is a light divine, And its shadow a mystique!
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Neelam Saxena Chandra
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