Silence Is Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say something all insightful or wise or something to try and make the person feel better. But really, sometimes silence is best.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Wise, Feel Better, Thinking

  Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “The Thing About the Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silence, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.274

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• All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

  Ray Bradbury

  Silence, Dawn, Emptiness

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Le silence est la plus grande perse  cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silence, Saint, Silent

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• Silence is often the best thing to say.

  Frank Herbert

  Silence, Best Things

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.105, Penguin

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• Silence is like a flame, you see?

  Marcel Marceau

  Flames, Silence

  Interview with Charlie Rose, September 27, 2000.

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• Silence is a great peacemaker.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Silence, Peacemaker

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

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• Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

  John Dryden

  Silence, Secret, Guilt

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.222

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• Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Sublime, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.251

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• I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Silence, Judgment

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.342, Pan Macmillan

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• The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Laughter, Silence, Purpose

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Powerful, Silence, Speech

  A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Maharshi Ramana (1968). “Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947”

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• I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Silence, Violence

  Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011

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• There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Communication, Silence, Sacred

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• Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

  Richard Rohr

  Space, Silence, Pushing

  "Contemplation in Action". Book by Richard Rohr, 2006.

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• You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Silence, Political, Statements

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• Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

  Rumi

  Sea, Rivers, Silence

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