Quote by Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; A

Summary

This quote suggests that excessive talking often arises from a restlessness within oneself. When one becomes unsettled with their thoughts and is unable to find solace within their own mind, they resort to constant talking. This incessant chatter becomes a means of distraction from facing their inner turmoil. However, in the process, deep thinking and introspection are compromised. The quote serves as a reminder to value silence, solitude, and self-reflection rather than being consumed by meaningless words that hinder genuine thought.

Topics

Peace Heart Silence

By Kahlil Gibran

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a gr

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Movies

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowerin

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Orison Swett Marden

Fear

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I l

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

Art

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants us

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Poetry

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Wisdom

Character isn't something you were born with and can't chang

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Change

And above all, we must feel and act as if an endless continu

And above all, we must feel and act as if an endless continuation of our earthly life awaited us after death; and if it be that nothingness is the fate that awaits us we must not, in the words of Obermann, so act that it shall be a just fate.

Miguel de Unamuno

Life Death Fate

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-i

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

Will Willpower

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts hi

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Friedrich von Schiller

Dissent

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterpr

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Freedom

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. popul

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Failure

When did women whose looks are not their living start conduc

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Women