Silence Is Quotes - Page 16

• If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Ignorance, Silence, Enlightenment

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• Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Silence, Trying, Looks

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• Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

  Guy De la Valdene

  Beautiful, Silence, Soul

  Guy de la Valdène, Martell Agency (2012). “Fragrance of Grass”, p.10, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is quieter and filled with energy when they're interested. You can hear a pin drop. When they're bored, you can always hear it.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Bored, Laughing, Silence

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Mirrors, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

  Igor Levit

  Artist, Silence, Tree

  "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.

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• No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Silence, Black, Racist

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• Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beauty, Moving, Silence

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• Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Silence, Dignity

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• Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

  William Drummond

  Safety, Silence, Mouths

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• Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Silence, Denial

  "Paulus", L, 17,

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• Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Silence, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

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• Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

  Josh Billings

  Silence, Kind, Argument

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• To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

  Elayne Boosler

  Keys, Silence, Comedy

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• Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

  Deepak Chopra

  Space, Silence, Spirit

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.120, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

  Douglas Hurd

  Gossip, Silence, Sin

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• I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Silence, Kenya, Stones

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Silence, Bigger

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.46, Discovery House

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• Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

  Maimonides

  Silence

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• Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

  Lauren Kate

  Silence, Humanity, Causes

  Lauren Kate (2013). “Teardrop”, p.217, Random House

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• But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

  Bram Stoker

  Strong, Silence, Waiting

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.535, Delphi Classics

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• Silence is a great source of strength.

  John Heider

  Silence, Source, Source Of Strength

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.5, Green Dragon Books

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• I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?

  Toni Morrison

  Order, Imagination, Silence

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• I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

  Nas

  Silence, Golden, Silence Is Golden

  "Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

  Nas

  Men, Silence, Sitting

  "Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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