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• Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Silence, World, Speech

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• Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

  Ken Cohen

  Meaningful, Truth, Silence

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• Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

  Epictetus

  Silence, Few Words

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Silence is only commendable
  In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Maids, Tongue

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

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• Silence, beautiful voice.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beautiful, Voice, Silence

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Distance, Silence

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• Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

  Rowan Williams

  Integrity, Silence

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

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• In music, silence is more important than sound.

  Miles Davis

  Silence, Important, Experience

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• Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

  Robert Adams

  Appreciation, Art, Silence

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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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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• The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self, Silence

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

  Eugene Kennedy

  Communication, Silence, Sacred

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• To look at any thing,
  If you would know that thing,
  You must look at it long:
  To look at this green and say,
  "I have seen spring in these
  Woods," will not do - you must
  Be the thing you see:
  You must be the dark snakes of
  Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
  You must enter in
  To the small silences between
  The leaves,
  You must take your time
  And touch the very peace
  They issue from.

  John Moffitt

  Spring, Dark, Snakes

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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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• Silence is also conversation.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Chaos, Conversation

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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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• 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 the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

  Benito Mussolini

  Ignorance, Giving, Advice

  "The Book of Italian Wisdom" by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, (p. 87), 2003.

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