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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others. -
St John of the Cross
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds. -
Ivan Illich
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. -
Aldous Huxley
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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 as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. -
Henry David Thoreau
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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow. -
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Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak. -
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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear. -
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I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them. -
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I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts. -
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The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it. -
Mark Twain
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. -
Pythagoras
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. -
Henry David Thoreau
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. -
Publilius Syrus
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. -
Sydney Smith
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -
Sydney Smith
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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. -
William Shakespeare
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