Silence Speaks Quotes

• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grieving, Self Respect, Silence

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Positive, Art, Silence

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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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• Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Silence

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• I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

  Chaim Potok

  Silence, Quality, Dimensions

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Law, Silence, Oratory

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.308, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

  Rumi

  Silence, Secret, Speak

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Hunger For Love

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• The more you know the less you talk.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Monk

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Hunger For Love, Silence

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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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 speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  Taylor Swift

  Crazy, Giving, Silence

  "Taylor Swift's Dating Tips: Glamour's March Cover Star on the One Thing She Won't Do in Relationships". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

  Leon Brown

  Silence, Mind, Answers

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• Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Mlm, Fearless, Tao Te Ching

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.174, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

  John Lennon

  Silence, Speak, Conspiracy

  John Lennon (1986). “Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko”, Harpercollins

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• The more you know the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

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• It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

  Edmond Jabes

  Death, Real, Journey

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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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• The more you know, the less you need.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Positivity, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

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• The more you know, the less you carry

  Mors Kochanski

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Monk

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• A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Silence, Void

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.193, I.B.Tauris

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• Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

  Tanya Huff

  Empty Mind, Silence, Speak

  Tanya Huff (2012). “The Fire’s Stone”, p.134, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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