“I have learned that In quiet places, reason abounds, that in quiet people there is vision and purpose, that many things are revealed to the humble that are hidden from the great.”

“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

“Stupid people can learn a language quiet and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.”

William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer

“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”

Bertrand Russell book The Conquest of Happiness