Silence Quotes

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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall,

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

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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by th

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

People Silence

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not onl

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

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Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence.

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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

Austin O'Malley

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

George Bernard Shaw

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Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a godd

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

Conflict Perfection Silence Huxley

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he appro

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.

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned hi

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.

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The unspoken word never does harm.

The unspoken word never does harm.

Silence

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshow

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to sp

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

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little ha

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

William Shakespeare

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You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become

You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Patience Silence

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Concentration Silence Productivity