tacit understanding Quotes

We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

The 'that's right' breakthrough usually doesn't come at the beginning of a negotiation. It's invisible to the counterpart when it occurs, and they embrace what you've said. To them, it's a subtle epiphany.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.