Home / Topics / Greater Quotes

Greater Quotes

Browse 5772 quotes about Greater.

Greater Quotes

“If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.”

Ifs Sound Silence Greater Music Is Jazz Silence Is

Author:Keith Jarrett

“If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.”

Ifs Should Sound Silence Greater Effects Chemicals Listeners Silence Is Physiological

Author:Keith Jarrett

“Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.”

Men Persons Reason Seems Answers Silence Greater Wise Fool Fairs Satisfied Occasions Breeding Unreasonable

Author:Plutarch

“Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be very powerful. Yet in reality the mind does not exist. There is no mind. There is no such thing as a mind. So when you sit in the silence you observe, you watch, you become the witness.”

Ifs Trying Mind Doe Reality Winning Powerful Silence Watches Greater Bigger Witness Very Powerful Power Of The Mind

Author:Robert Adams

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”

Stills Truth Certain Views Silence Opinion Greater Subjects Point Of View Practicals Totalitarianism Eloquent Propagandist Brave New World Technology

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.”

Mind Silence Greater Depth Surface Greater Power

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, silence prevails; the wisdom of the world, however, goes astray into idle talk.”

World Spirit Silence Greater Holy Holy Spirit Idle

Author:Isaac of Nineveh