Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Silence Quotes

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings...

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings...

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second...

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second...

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person...

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would...

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would...

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at...

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at...

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context...

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context...