Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate with each other effectively. It's really nice when you can have that communication on a level where they walk up to you and you can see by the expression on their face what they want. You don't even have to talk, it just like, "Got it!" And, you know what they want before they even ask for it.

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.