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Silence Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
- Real action is in silent moments.
- Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
- Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
- You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.…
- We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,…
- Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
- We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty…
- True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
- Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
- Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
- Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.
- I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
- Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good…
- When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence
- I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.
More Silence Quotes
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley