Simon Schama Quotes

Silence is so accurate.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence is worth a thousand pieces of silver.

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

When you have nothing to say, you don't talk.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.