Silence Quotes - Page 13

• My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Weapons, Mute

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Play, Mind

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• And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Smart, Book, Lambs

  "The Passion of the Oprah" by Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

  Mooji

  Mean, Effort, Technique

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• It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Friendship, Overcoming, Noble

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• The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

  Charles Lamb

  Dumb, Apollo, Muse

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.264

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• I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Lines, Noise

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

  William Stafford

  Rivers, Waiting, Looks

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Experiences, Feelings, Shy

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

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• The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Names, Ideas, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.888, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

  John Keats

  Littles, Noise, Born

  'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' (1817) l. 10

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• Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

  David Luiz

  Beautiful, Powerful, Mean

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• Silence is refreshment for the soul.

  Wynonna Judd

  Soul, Silence Is, Refreshments

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• Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

  Paul Gauguin

  Night, Knows

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

  Denis Diderot

  Important, Matter, Truth Is

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• Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!

  Milton H. Erickson

  Shut Up, Chairs, Trance

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.10, Ardent Media

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• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

  Iris Murdoch

  Dream, Artist, Sea

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

  John Milton

  Fall, Night, Wings

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

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• These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Fall, Snow, Justice

  "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

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• When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.

  Edward Lear

  Night, Long, Darkness

  'The Dong with a Luminous Nose' (1871)

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• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

  A. E. Housman

  Cheer, Sound, Ears

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

  Eric Maisel

  Ideas, Mind, Needs

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• The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Deep Thought, Desert, Body

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• There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Virtue

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