Silence Quotes - Page 10

• Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Speak, Climax

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Speak, Silent

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

  Johannes Tauler

  School, Humility, Men

  Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384

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• Silence gives consent.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, War, Giving

  Oliver Goldsmith (1792). “The Good Natured Man: A Comedy”, p.28

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• Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mouths, Speech, Madmen

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

  Richard Flecknoe

  Art, Flood, Deeper

  'Miscellania' (1653)

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• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silent

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• I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of
  silence is large enough beyond the grave.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Couple, Political

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

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• Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Past

  "Teachers of Wisdom". Book by Igor Kononenko, p. 134, 2010.

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• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Business, Communication, Empathy

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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• He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Decision, Vigor, Speak

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Sad, Depressing

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

  David Whyte

  Work, Struggle, Soul

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• Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sarcastic, Communication, Intellectual

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 914,

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• After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

  Mason Cooley

  Mean, Acceptance, Resistance

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• Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

  Pindar

  Men, Heed, Wisest

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• Silence is the mother of truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Beautiful, Mother

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.182

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• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

  Plutarch

  Speech, Seasons

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• Cold silence has a tendency to
  atrophy any
  sense of compassion
  between supposed lovers

  Maynard James Keenan

  Compassion, Lovers, Cold

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  Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Holocaust

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• Silence is one great art of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Communication, Conversation

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Daughter, Vengeance, If The Shoe Fits

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 707), 1922.

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• Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Communication, People, Scary

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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• Silence never yet betrayed any one!

  Antoine Rivarol

  Betrayed

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• We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

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  Ram Dass

  Love, Understanding, Unity

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.191, Harmony

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