Silence Is Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Listening To Others, Silence

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

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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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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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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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• Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

  Jeremiah

  Wise, Silence, Intellectual

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• Silence
  is an ocean. Speech is a river.
  When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk
  into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
  and bring your talky business to an end.
  Traditional words are just babbling
  in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
  for sight.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Sight, Rivers

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.

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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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• The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Rivers, Silence, Silent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 707-10, Aurora (1604), Song, 1922.

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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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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• 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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• All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Weather, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.150

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• What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Silence, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.623, Library of America

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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 a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Friendship, Letting Go, Art

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• Silence is the mother of truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Beautiful, Mother

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.182

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• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

  Cato the Elder

  God, Anger, Thinking

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• I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

  Publilius Syrus

  Regret, Silence, Silent

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

  Hannah More

  Art, Women, Silence

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345

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• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Friend, Good Friend

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• Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teacher, Inspiration, Knowing

  Deepak Chopra (1993). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Harmony

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