(164 quotes found)
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
Winston Churchill
“We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.”
Voltaire
“A yawn is a silent shout.”
G. K. Chesterton
“We must be silent before we can listen.We must listen before we can learn.We must learn before we can prepare.We must prepare before we can serve.We must serve before we can lead.”
William Arthur Ward
“Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly.”
William Blake
“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees”
C.S. Lewis
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.”
W. A. Clarke
“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.”
Dalai Lama
“To hear, one must be silent”
Ursula K. LeGuin
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