Quotes on silence
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
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George Barzan Quotes
Silence was never written down.
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Italian Proverb Quotes
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
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Peter Minard Quotes
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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Emile M. Cioran Quotes
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Sylvia Plath Quotes
Silence is a fence around wisdom.
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German Proverb Quotes
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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William Penn Quotes
Silence is medication for sorrow.
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Arab Proverb Quotes
Nature and silence go better together.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Silence is the mother of truth.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence.
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Walter Bauer Quotes
Silence is a text easy to misread.
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A.A. Attanasio Quotes
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
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Confucius Quotes
Silence is a source of great strength.
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Lao Tzu Quotes
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Nothing is more useful than silence.
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Menander of Athens Quotes
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
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Edward Hoagland Quotes
I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.
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Richard Steele Quotes
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
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William Alexander Quotes
Silence is more musical than any song.
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Christina Rossetti Quotes
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Author Unknown Quotes
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
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Leroy Brownlow Quotes
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
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Proverb Quotes
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.
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Mother Teresa Quotes
Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Silence is the secret to sanity.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
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 monstrously like a gray vegetation.
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Jean Arp Quotes