2.
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
Enoch Powell
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Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
Arvo Part
7.
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
Maimonides
10.
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
Epictetus
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides
13.
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.
Rowan Williams
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Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?
Gil Fronsdal
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The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Silence is a protective coating over pain.
E. Lockhart
19.
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson
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Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
Keith Jarrett
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Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles
28.
Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
Ben Folds
29.
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
Mitch Albom
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Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
Mitch Albom
34.
Silence is often advantageous.
Menander
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Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
Alice Fulton
38.
silence is the most intolerable of answers.
Mason Cooley
39.
See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.
Sarah Dessen
40.
Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.
Sally Quinn
41.
Sometimes silence is the most effective tool to make impact, and sometimes loud and big is the trick.
Per Hallberg