Silence Quotations
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| Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. | |||
| - Muhammad Ali | |||
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| He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. | |||
| - Ausonius | |||
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| Silence is the virtue of fools. | |||
| - Francis Bacon | |||
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| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. | |||
| - Josh Billings | |||
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| After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. | |||
| - Henry Bromel | |||
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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. | |||
| - Thomas Carlyle | |||
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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. | |||
| - Marcus Cato | |||
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| In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. | |||
| - Meister Eckhart | |||
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| In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. | |||
| - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
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| A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. | |||
| - Thomas Hardy | |||
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| With silence favor me. | |||
| - Horace | |||
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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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| In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. | |||
| - Martin Luther, Jr. King | |||
| Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. | |||
| - Martin Luther, Jr. King | |||
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| Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. | |||
| - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | |||
| 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. | |||
| - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | |||
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| There are grammatical errors even in his silence. | |||
| - Stanislaw J. Lec | |||
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| Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
| Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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| The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. | |||
| - Blaise Pascal | |||
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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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| Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. | |||
| - Saadi | |||
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| It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||
| The rest is silence. | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||
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| Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. | |||
| - Dame Edith Sitwell | |||
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| He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. | |||
| - Sydney Smith | |||
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| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. | |||
| - Adlai E. Stevenson | |||
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| I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. | |||
| - Publilius Syrus | |||
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| Their silence is sufficient praise. | |||
| - Terence | |||
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| There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||