"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."

--

Henri Frederic Amiel

#Truth Quotes #Anger Quotes #Silence Quotes

“It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.”
“We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.”
“There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.”
“Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
“Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.”
“If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.”
“An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.”
“Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.”

You may also like: