Silence
Definition: Complete absence of sound. Prohibit or prevent from speaking.
Number of Quotes: 18
You ain't learnin' nothing when you're talking.
Lyndon B. Johnson's office.
Anonymous
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to
speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de La Bruyère
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Colton
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus
z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and
kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Khalil Gibran
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford
Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,
Joseph exclaimed.
If only there were a dogma to believe in.
Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way
and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and
can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?
The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said:
There is truth, my
boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long
for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas
and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow
people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
And 'tis remarkable, that they talk most who have the least to say.
Mathew Prior
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk
until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than
mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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