Robert Fripp

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

If the audience doesn’t hear what is going on, is it going on?

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Join the dance.

We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

I think; therefore I am.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.