Silence Quotes - Page 17

• Never be bullied into silence.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Inspirational, Lgbt, Gay Pride

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Moments, Eternal

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.

  George Herbert

  Water, Still Waters, Stills

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.297

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• Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Heaven, Earth

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.353

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• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Language

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface

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• I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Years, Twenties, Three

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.17, New York Review of Books

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

  Theodore Parker

  Speech, Cold, Figures

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

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• Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Imperfection, Virtue

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken Heart, Dream, Broken Promises

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fall, Echoes

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• No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

  Paul Simon

  Listening, Sound, Corny

  "Song: The Sounds of Silence (Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.)". October 1964.

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• There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

  Thomas Hood

  Life, Sea, Desert

  "Silence" l. 1 (1827)

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• The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

  Mark Twain

  Progressive, Achieve, Combination

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.154, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  Ambrose

  Causes, Dangerous, Silence Is

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Library of Congress, 1989.

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• Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

  Plutarch

  Tongue, Remember, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.257

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• Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

  Peter Senge

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Inspiration, Challenges

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment”, Harmony

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• Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

  Bob Dylan

  Sometimes, Thunder

  Song: Love Sick, Album: Time Out Of Mind, 1997

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• ... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

  Pat Conroy

  Lying, Form, Eloquent

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• I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

  Selima Hill

  Thinking, Voice, Giving

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• He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Practice, Mind

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• The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spheres, Melody, Highest

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• Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Greatness, Elements

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

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• Silence gives consent.
  [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Giving, Consent

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