Benefits Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benefits Communication Conversation Dullness May Moral perfection Silence Silence speaks Speak Trifling
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Silence has an important role in conversation. It's the only part when you have the chance to listen. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. — Margaret Lee Runbeck Copy Share Image
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… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the purpose of… — Arthur Martine Copy Share Image
Silence doesn't mean you ignore but you are trying to reduce the problems that may occur if you talk too much — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image