William Osler Quotes

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

William Osler

Quotes to Explore

Silence is also conversation.

Ramana Maharshi
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Gary Shteyngart
- Important
- Mind
- Thoughts
A man is known by the silence he keeps.

Oliver Herford
- Man
- Silence
- Known
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Nana Mouskouri
- Book
- Silence
- Speak
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia E. Butler
- People
- Up
- Time
We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.

Daniel Barenboim
- Time
- Energy
- Silence