A Quote by Henry F. Ashurst

Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

Henry F. Ashurst

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Henry F. Ashurst
American - Politician
September 13, 1874 - May 31, 1962

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Josh Billings

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

Vinay Kumar

What is America? Best brains in the world migrate to the U.S. If there are best brains, they will produce best results.

N. Chandrababu Naidu

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Dean Acheson

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Deepak Chopra

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Ramana Maharshi

Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no".

Robin Sharma

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

Noel Fielding

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Lewis Carroll

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

John Herschel

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.