Silence Quotes - Page 18

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

  Dominique Bouhours

  Understanding, Virtue, Silence Is

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• When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Looks, Emptiness

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• I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Art, Attitude

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• The most profound statements are often said in silence.

  Lynn Johnston

  Inspirational, Profound, Said

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• I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Cinema, Quiet

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• Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Listening, Cures

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Communication, Thoughtful, Genius

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• Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

  Elie Wiesel

  Deeds And Words, Grace, Quality

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Meditation, Patterns

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• Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

  Lawrence Durrell

  Doe, Quiet, Interpretation

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings”, p.23, University of Alberta

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• You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Holmes, Companion, Watson

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• We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Lost Love, Taken

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 24, 2011

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• After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

  Albert Camus

  Love, One Day, Peculiar

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• What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

  Audre Lorde

  Fear, Needs, Tyranny

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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• A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Music, Teacher, Gains

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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, Personality, Awkward

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

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• Not to ask is not be denied.

  John Dryden

  Denied, Asks

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• Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

  Robert Burns

  Learning, Motto

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• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

  Samuel Beckett

  Butterfly, Men, States

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Riverrun Pr

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• Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Teacher, Loneliness

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• He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moments, Psychological, Precise

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.184, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Able

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• There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

  Madison Cawein

  Heart, Brain, Ghost

  Madison Julius Cawein, “Haunters Of The Silence”

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• Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

  Robert Benchley

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  "With Truth as Our Sword". Book by C. E. Sylvester, February 2005.

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• I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Marriage, Hilarious

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