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Other quotes about: experience never words Other quotes by Charles Simic.
- "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
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Other quotes about: friend friends words Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..
- "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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Other quotes about: bad people good Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..
- "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
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Other quotes about: bad people good hate words Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..
- "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."
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Other quotes about: people good evil Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..
- "We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
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Other quotes by Dante Alighieri.
- "A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."
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Other quotes about: ignorance art Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.
- "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
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Other quotes about: talk teach Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.
- "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
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Other quotes about: find never Other quotes by George Orwell.
- "Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing."
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Other quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- "The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart."
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Other quotes about: friend Other quotes by Pam Brown.
- "Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence."
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Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.
- "As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
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Other quotes about: life purpose Other quotes by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
- "Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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Other quotes about: find right peace need deep Other quotes by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
- "There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."
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Other quotes about: life purpose Other quotes by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
- "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
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Other quotes about: speech never Other quotes by Publilius Syrus.
- "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
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Other quotes about: find god friend sun nature moon need rest soul Other quotes by Mother Theresa.
- "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."
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Other quotes by Euripides.
- "Your very silence shows you agree."
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Other quotes about: rest Other quotes by William Shakespeare.
- "The rest is silence."
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Other quotes about: history evil Other quotes by Haile Selassie.
- "Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
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Other quotes about: speech time good deep lies Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.
- "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."
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Other quotes about: art human dead Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.
- "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts."
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Other quotes about: music Other quotes by Aldous Huxley.
- "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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Other quotes about: day life person teach Other quotes by Hellen Keller.
- "I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound."
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Other quotes by Henri Frdric Amiel.
- "Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence."
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Other quotes about: never life Other quotes by Harvey Fierstein.
- "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself."
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Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Marcel Marceau.
- "To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man."
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Other quotes about: human world born Other quotes by Albert Camus.
- "The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world."
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Other quotes by Danish proverb.
- "Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence."
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Other quotes about: find truth life light soul Other quotes by Mahatma Gandhi.
- "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
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Other quotes by Horace.
- "With silence favor me."
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Other quotes about: man Other quotes by John Morley.
- "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
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Other quotes about: speech Other quotes by Seneca.
- "It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."
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Other quotes about: right friend person grow Other quotes by Alice Walker.
- "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
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Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Samuel Beckett.
- "Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
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Other quotes about: talk Other quotes by Jorge Luis Borges.
- "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
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Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Thomas Hardy.
- "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."
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Other quotes about: earth human god conscience heaven Other quotes by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton.
- "Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."
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Other quotes about: experience right truth people life need soul Other quotes by Deepak Chopra.
- "To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
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Other quotes about: find time people life understand Other quotes by Stuti Garg.
- "Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to."
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Other quotes about: friendship friend people friends Other quotes by Dave Tyson Gentry.
- "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
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Other quotes about: talk think people man Other quotes by Margaret Halsey.
- "Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence."
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Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Alfred Jarry.
- "We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."
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Other quotes about: nothing good Other quotes by John Tillotson.
- "A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing."
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Other quotes about: america right men man Other quotes by Archibald MacLeish.
- "Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness."
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Other quotes about: art words hard Other quotes by Phyllis Mcginley.
- "Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."
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Other quotes about: speech talk Other quotes by Saskya Pandita.
- "Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."
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Other quotes about: rest sleep mind Other quotes by William Penn.
- "True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
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Other quotes by Blaise Pascal.
- "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."
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Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Adrienne Rich.
- "Lying is done with words and also with silence."
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Other quotes about: man good Other quotes by Saadi.
- "Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant."
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Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Leon Samson.
- "The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears."
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Other quotes about: person music Other quotes by Edith Sitwell.
- "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
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Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Joseph Sobran.
- "The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself."
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Other quotes by Terence.
- "Their silence is sufficient praise."
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Other quotes about: speech Other quotes by Martin Fraquhar Tupper.
- "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
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Other quotes about: friendship friend people friends Other quotes by Unknown.
- "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
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Other quotes about: success Other quotes by Unknown.
- "The only successful substitute for brains is silence."
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Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Jacqui Webb.
- "Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some..."
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Other quotes by Steven Wright.
- "If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer"
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Other quotes about: speech art woman Other quotes by Tom Blair.
- "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."
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Other quotes about: speech friend live people light music friends alone Other quotes by Henry Bromel.
- "After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
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Other quotes about: integrity man Other quotes by Meister Eckhart.
- "In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity."
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Other quotes by Robert Fripp.
- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
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Other quotes by Lynn Johnston.
- "The most profound statements are often said in silence."
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Other quotes by Carmen de Monteflores.
- "Oppression can only survive through silence."
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Other quotes about: find reason peace Other quotes by Peter Minard.
- "Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."
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Other quotes about: art friend time Other quotes by Gloria Naylor.
- "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
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Other quotes about: little man value words Other quotes by Pythagoras.
- "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."
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Other quotes about: something need honest Other quotes by Pamela Ribon.
- "When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate."
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Other quotes about: lost death think Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.
- "You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond."
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Other quotes about: luck experience right Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.
- "Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky."
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Other quotes about: talk think world never need sleep mind Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.
- "The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode"
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Other quotes about: deep perfect Other quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- "Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence."
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Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- "The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause."
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Other quotes about: die human life grow Other quotes by George Eliot.
- "If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence."
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Other quotes by Stanislaw Lec.
- "There are grammatical errors even in his silence."
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Other quotes about: perfect Other quotes by Sydney Smith.
- "He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful."
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Other quotes about: lies Other quotes by Robert Louis Stephenson.
- "The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
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