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Silence

Those that are silent profess consent.

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Best Quotes about Silence

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

25.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

28.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

29.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair