We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.