Silence Is Quotes - Page 5

• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

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

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Silence, Together

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Positive, Art, Silence

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• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  Ambrose

  Silence, Causes, Dangerous

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Library of Congress, 1989.

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• Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Envy, Silence, Contradiction

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• Silence is the best reply to a fool.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Silence, Fool

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• Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Silence, Sanctuary, Prudence

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• Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Success, Yoga, Silence

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• Silence is an answer to a wise man.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Silence

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.70

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• Silence is a still noise.

  Josh Billings

  Silence, Noise, Stills

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.79

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• Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Silence, Atheism, Argument

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

  Marcel Marceau

  Communication, Men, Thinking

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

  Laozi

  Taken, Humility, Humble

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• The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Wings, Water

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• But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

  Diane Setterfield

  Silence, Needs, Stories

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• silence is the most intolerable of answers.

  Mason Cooley

  Silence, Answers

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• Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Silence, Buttons, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.164, A&C Black

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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• As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words.  They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm.  But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

  Henri Nouwen

  Discipline, Silence, Temptation

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.27, HarperCollins

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• Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Silence, Brain, Substitutes

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• Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

  Josh Billings

  Silence, World, Golden

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• Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Safety, Silence, Needs

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.189, Anchor

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