“Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
Denis Diderot
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius”
Edward Gibbon
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Solitude is the safeguard of mediocrity. . . to genius the stern friend.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He became more reflective and chose to live life with much more solitude. His passion for fishing grew more intense.”
Wendy Day
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
Mother Teresa
