Titon Rahmawan quote: “A trained mind knows when and how to express itself. It can be through words, expressions or even just silence.”

“A million words cannot express what a glance can convey, and a million glances cannot express what a moment of silence can.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

Narada Bhakti Sutras (2001)
Context: A million words cannot express what a glance can convey, and a million glances cannot express what a moment of silence can. A moment of silence conveys so much more than any other expression. Still, love is beyond silence too. You can describe silence to some extent, but that which is beyond silence cannot be expressed. You give, you hug... but still something remains unexpressed.

“God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best”

Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer

The Cherubinic Wanderer

“A photograph can express silence.”

Patrick Modiano (1945) French writer

Suspended Sentences (1993)

“I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Strong Opinions

Source: Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
Context: To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

“The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.”

Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time

Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 39

“How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought once uttered is untrue.”

Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) Russian poet

Silentium!

“There is an aliveness in you that you can feel with your Being, not just in the head. Every cell is alive in that presence in which you don't need to think. Yet, in that state, if thought is required for some practical purpose, it is there. The mind can still operate, and it operated beautifully when the greater intelligence that you are uses it and expresses itself through it.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003)

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“Love her? You're devoid of all feeling. You lack common decency. You know how to express yourself. You always have just the right words. There's just one thing you haven't the slightest clue about: life itself. You're a craven coward, but a genius at evasions and excuses.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

"Martin" (Max von Sydow) in Through a Glass Darkly (1961).
Films

“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Pt. V http://books.google.com/books?id=sUKiG0ghhb4C&q=%22Silence+is+the+most+perfect+expression+of+scorn%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“A trained mind knows when and how to express itself. It can be through words, expressions or even just silence.”

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