"A fence to wisdom is silence."

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Source : Pirkei Avot, 3:17,

Rabbi Akiva

#Silence Quotes #Fence Quotes

“The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.”

Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.2, New Riders
“Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that youâ€™re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, youâ€™re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.”
“Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)”
“At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.”
“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”
“Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our fault? Again, maybe. The correlation of increasing warmth with increasing carbon dioxide concentrations is particularly weak; that with solar energy and with ocean movements is much stronger.”
“Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.”
“To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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