(669 quotes found)
“All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”
Confucius
“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.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers”
Kahlil Gibran
“Even silence speaks”
Hausa Proverb
“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
“Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding”
German Proverb
“The right answer to a fool is silence”
Afghan Proverb
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