Silence Is Quotes
354 quotes by 269 authors
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
— Francis Bacon
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
— Josh Billings
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To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
— Elayne Boosler
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
— William S. Burroughs
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
— Muhammad Ali
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to…
— Edmond Jabes
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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big…
— Oswald Chambers
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A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
— Samuel Chadwick
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Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence.…
— Yogaswami
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Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
— Natalia Ginzburg
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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…
— Henry David Thoreau
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