Silence Quotes - Page 14

• Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Pool

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.40, 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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• After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  World, Speech, Silence Is

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Virtue

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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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• 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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• 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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• In Silence there is eloquence.

  Rumi

  Solitude, Eloquence

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• At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

  Dave Eggers

  Healing, Eye, Night

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.142, Vintage

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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, Listening

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

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• One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Sound, Silent, Sounds Of Silence

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• You can't improve on saying nothing.

  Golda Meir

  Saying Nothing

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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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, Tragedy

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

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• An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Ears, Firsts

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• We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

  Charles Dickens

  Assertion

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• the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

  Hannah More

  Variables, Speech, Conversation

  Hannah More (1853). “Poems, sacred dramas, essays”, p.278

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• Friendship needs no words.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Real Friends, Needs

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

  Tom Neil

  Communication, Math, Language

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• Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Littles, If I Could

  William Shakespeare, Demitra Papadinis “Renaissance Acting Editions: Much adoe about Nothing [Much Ado About Nothing]”, Demitra Papadinis

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• An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

  Charles de Lint

  Song, Years, Space

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• Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

  John Keats

  Children, Foster Children

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 1

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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

  Buttons, Amir, Shutting Down

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

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• The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

  William Shakespeare

  Jurisprudence, Innocence, Failing

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.282

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• It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

  Kin Hubbard

  Talking, Literature, Plans

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