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“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.”

Silence Learning Silent I've Learned

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”

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Author:Kelly Cutrone

“That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.”

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Author:Bill Bonner

“When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

Source: Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition

“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”

Life Writing Silence Learning Printed

Author:Carol Burnett

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”

“Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!”

Silence Learning Motto

Author:Robert Burns

“One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.”

Life Silence Learning Draws Silent Confusion

Author:Otis Skinner

“It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.”

Source: Mission and Midwifery: Essays on Missionary Formation