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• If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

  Plutarch

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

  Robert Herjavec

  Listening, Important, Letters

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• Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Sometimes, Heard

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• Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

  Rajneesh

  Roots, Meditation, Feelings

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• In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Attitude, Yoga, Knowing

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• I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

  Pete Seeger

  Members, Enthusiastic, Supposed To Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

  Byron Katie

  Silence, Proof, Minutes

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you

  Wayne Dyer

  Meditation, Sound, Answers

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• Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Surrender, Never Surrender, Witness

  Twitter post from Feb 9, 2015

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• You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

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• People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, People, Understanding

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• The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

  Prentice Mulford

  Moving, Effort, Mind

  Prentice Mulford (2012). “Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Race, Dust, Civilization

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• A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

  Madame de Stael

  Fall, Glasses, Light

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• For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

  Owen Feltham

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.89

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• About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Speak, Can Not

  "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

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• February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Heaven, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

  Rumi

  Soul, Speak, Dear

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• The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Reality, Essence

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• There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, Interesting, Talkers

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4031, Delphi Classics

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• Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Respect, Speak, Should

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• You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Here And Now, Earnest

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• Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.

  Andrew Jackson

  Army, Government, Law

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• I'm a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I'm a sitting duck because I can't get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They're far ahead of me. That's what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It's a big, silent monster out there. That's what it feels like.

  Viola Davis

  Mean, Ducks, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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• How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Looks

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