Silence Is Quotes - Page 10

• Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Mass Destruction, Silence, Weapons

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• Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

  Rumi

  Silence, World, Silent

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• All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence... Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

  Herman Melville

  Fate, Hands, Voice

  "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" by Herman Melville, (Bk. XIV, ch. 1), 1852.

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• Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Freedom, Thinking, Silence

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• Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

  Pico Iyer

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

  Pico Iyer (2011). “Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions”, p.546, Vintage

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• In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Vacation

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• For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Silence, Till The End, Noble

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865)

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Betrayal

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, People, Silence

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Music, Beautiful, Silence

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• In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

  Gangaji

  Silence, Usual, Inward

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• Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Silence, Achievement

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, Scribner

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• Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Silence, Soul, Sabbath

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 20, 2013

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• Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

  Thomas Keating

  Silence, Language, Difficult

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• Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
  destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
  arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

  Kenneth Turan

  Regret, Silence, Sound

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• The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, Voice, Silence

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is the best response to a fool.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Silence, Fool, Cool Status

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• When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Silence, World

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.106, Macmillan

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• The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Silence, Truth Is, Stills

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• I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Betrayal, Silence, Neutrality

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1967.

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• Silence is God's first language.

  John of the Cross

  Silence, Firsts, Language

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• Letter 1
  To the princess of the elephants,
  I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began
  Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year.
  I will never be more of myself than in these letters.
  They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

  Gregory Colbert

  Princess, Years, Elephants

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• Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

  Heinrich Heine

  Silence, Essentials, Conditions

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Names, Silence

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silence, Shame, Discourse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1387, Delphi Classics

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