Quotes about silence

"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 on silence   

"From politics it was an easy step to silence."

Austen, Jane on silence
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"Silence is the virtue of fools."

Bacon, Francis on silence
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind."

Bagehot, Walter on silence   

"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Beaumont, Francis on silence
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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."

Beckett, Samuel on silence   

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

Bible on silence   

"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 on silence
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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

Billings, Josh on silence
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"When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began."

Boehme, Jacob on silence   

"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on silence
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"Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!"

Burns, Robert on silence
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"Silence is more eloquent than words."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."

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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence   

"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 on silence   

"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity."

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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."

Cato The Elder on silence
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"Silence is the unbearable repartee."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on silence   

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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 on silence
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"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."

Churchill, Winston on silence
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."

Colton, Charles Caleb on silence
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

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

Coolidge, Calvin on silence
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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 on silence   

"And now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled."

Delint, Charles on silence   

"X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."

Dickson, R A on silence   

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on silence
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"Silence is the mother of truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on silence
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"Not to ask is not be denied."

Dryden, John on silence   

"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."

Eliot, George on silence   

"Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on silence
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"It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Engel, Silvan on silence
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"I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did."

Gabirol, Ibn on silence   

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

Gaulle, Charles De on silence
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

Gibran, Kahlil on silence
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"The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations."

Giles, Henry on silence   

"Silence is argument carried on by other means."

Guevara, Che on silence
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