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.
“A trained mind knows when and how to express itself. It can be through words, expressions or even just silence.”
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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.
“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
"Martin" (Max von Sydow) in Through a Glass Darkly (1961).
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“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”
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)