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Silence Quotes

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Silence Quotes

A man is known by the silence he keeps.
–Oliver Herford, American author (1863-1935)

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
–Dave Tyson Gentry

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness
–Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
–Harvey Fierstein

Meditating deeply… reach the depth of the source. Branching streams cannot compare to this source! Sitting alone in a great silence, even though the heavens turn and the earth is upset, you will not even wink.
–Nyogen Senzaki

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings
–Unknown

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When the silences are no longer awkward, you know you are around friends.
–Unknown

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
–John Morley (Rousseau)

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
–Bliss Carman (1861-1929) Canadian poet, author

Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
–Portuguese Proverb

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
–Henry Van Dyke

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The winter of the soul, in its seeming barrenness, its times of seeming unproductivity, its times of silence and seeming stalemate, is perhaps it most important season. Without it, there is no recovery of freshness and vitality; no bursting forth in springtime splendor.
–Dwight Judy

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.
–Vaclav Havel

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
–Felicia D. Hemas. 1794-1835

No person is you friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow
–Alice Walker American writer

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