Silence Is Quotes - Page 4

• Silence is become his mother tongue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mother, Silence, Tongue

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 2

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• To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Silence, Poetic, Flattering

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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• Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Music, Poetry, Silence

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• Silence is the wit of fools.

  Anatole France

  Silence, Literature, Fool

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• The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Heart, Silence

  "Raja Yoga".

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• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Personality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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• Silence is so accurate.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Serenity, Favourite

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• Silence is the eternal duty of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, Duty

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.79

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• Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Pride, Silence, Physicians

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• Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice, Silence, Speech

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• Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

  Theodore Parker

  Silence, Speech, Cold

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.50

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• Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Silence, May

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• Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

  Dominique Bouhours

  Silence, Understanding, Virtue

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  Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expression, Perfect, Silence

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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• Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Silence, Spheres, Speech

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1857). “Songs of Summer”, p.12

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• Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Past

  "Teachers of Wisdom". Book by Igor Kononenko, p. 134, 2010.

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• 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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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Bystanders, History

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Power, Silence, Weapons

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  God, Silence, Meditation

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