Silence Is Quotes - Page 5

• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Silence, Together

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Positive, Art, Silence

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• Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Envy, Silence, Contradiction

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• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  Ambrose

  Silence, Causes, Dangerous

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Library of Congress, 1989.

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• Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Silence, Sanctuary, Prudence

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• Silence is the best reply to a fool.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Silence, Fool

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• Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Success, Yoga, Silence

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• Silence is an answer to a wise man.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Silence

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.70

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• Silence is a still noise.

  Josh Billings

  Silence, Noise, Stills

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.79

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• Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Silence, Atheism, Argument

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

  Marcel Marceau

  Communication, Men, Thinking

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

  Laozi

  Taken, Humility, Humble

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• When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

  J. Brent Bill

  Heart, Rushing, Silence

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• Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

  Edmund Burke

  Yellow, Silence, Golden

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• It was simply this: silence is not a neutral position, whatever your intentions. Silence automatically supports the status quo. When you are a presence that lacks a voice, you create an empty space that another voice - a dominating voice that knows no boundaries - is only too happy to fill.

  Justine Musk

  Voice, Space, Support

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• Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

  Krista Tippett

  Reality, Silence, Doe

  Krista Tippett (2008). “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It”, p.45, Penguin

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• The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

  Charles Wesley

  Christian, Men, Evil

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• One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust.

  Richard J. Foster

  Silence, Bears, Silent

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• Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Silence, Brain, Substitutes

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• Silence is a source of great strenght.

  Laozi

  Silence, Strenght, Source

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• Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Silence, World, Rooftops

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