Silent Quotes

• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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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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  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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• Nothing is more useful than silence.

  Menander

  Men, Silence, Silence Is

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Ex Incert. Comœd", p. 216), 1922.

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• Meditation is not a technique to master;
  it is the highest form of prayer,
  a naked act of love and effortless surrender
  into the silent abyss beyond all knowing

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Knowing, Meditation

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• The Inspiration You Seek
  Is Already Within You.
  Be Silent And Listen.

  Rumi

  Inspiration, Within You

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• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.14, Penguin Books India

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• When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wisdom, Waste, Sun

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• If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

  Victor Hugo

  Political, Politics, Speak

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

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

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• When they remain silent, they cry out.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Silence, Cry

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• Most of all, I like the quiet, rounded tugs. They remind me of women. As I watch them work I see them as kindly, no-fuss boats which patiently tend much larger, grander and more important-looking ships. They make sure these ships get to the right place as the right time, shepherding them with a pull or a push as needed. Their power is not immediately obvious but it is there - inside. I watch them a lot and never tire of seeing their unsung but absolutely essential work. The silent strong women of the sea.

  Hazel Hawke

  Strong Women, Sea, Important

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• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Library

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition

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• Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, God, Angel

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Worship the Silent Space in you.

  Rajneesh

  Space, Silence, Worship

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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 have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Night, Echoes, Silence

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• The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

  Alfred de Musset

  Heart, Silence, Mouths

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Philosophical, Men

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• Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

  Rumi

  Keys, Doors, Locks

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• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Friend, Good Friend

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• When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

  Winston Churchill

  Life And Love, Humorous, Eagles

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• Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

  Pythagoras

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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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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