Keeping Quiet Quotes

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

  Arundhati Roy

  Political, Way, Saying Nothing

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”

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• It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Quiet, Difficult, Ifs

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.31, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

  Mooji

  Mean, Silence, Effort

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• This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Sitting, Drivers

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.29, Random House

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• The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Thinking, Expression

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

  Robyn

  Mean, Safe, Way

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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Atheist, People

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• As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

  John Donne

  Family, Doors, Differences

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• Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Brother, Thinking, Valuable

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.75, SCM Press

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• The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.

  Robyn

  Mean, Ideas, Safe

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• They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Vision, Sowing

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.36, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is Consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. begin to realize your divine nature. You do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep quiet.

  Robert Adams

  Realization, Way, Consciousness

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• If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come.

  Mooji

  Mean, Self, Imagination

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