Silence Is Quotes - Page 2

• Silence is sometimes the best answer

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  Samuel Johnson

  Silence, Knows

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• There was no one left to speak for me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Speaking Up, Bystanders, Nwo

  "First they came". Poem by Martin Niemoller,

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• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Book, Communication

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Love, Inspirational, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Live Life, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.278, Princeton University Press

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

  Edward Hoagland

  Health, Sleep, Silence

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Men, Silence

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• When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

  Winston Churchill

  Life And Love, Humorous, Eagles

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• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Silence, Safe, Silent

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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  My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  Edith Sitwell

  Funny, Music, Reading

  Reader's Digest, Volume 111, No. 666, October 1977.

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• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Philosophical, Men

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• If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Silence, Presidential, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.

  Norton Juster

  Beautiful, Country, Night

  "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, www.theguardian.com. 1961.

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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, Silence

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

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

  Mark Helprin

  Expression, Silence, Time Management

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• But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Silence, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

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• Silence is safer than speech.

  Epictetus

  Silence, Speech, Quiet

  Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”

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• Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

  Euripides

  Silence, True Wisdom

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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  Silence is argument carried out by other means.

  Che Guevara

  Positive, Witty, Powerful

  "Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions". Book by Earl Ernest Guile, 2005.

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• There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

  Thomas Hood

  Life, Sea, Silence

  "Silence" l. 1 (1827)

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