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
11.
Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?
Gil Fronsdal
12.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides
14.
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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The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
17.
Silence is a protective coating over pain.
E. Lockhart
21.
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
27.
Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles
28.
Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
Ben Folds
30.
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles
31.
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
41.
silence is the most intolerable of answers.
Mason Cooley
42.
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
Alice Fulton
43.
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
44.
Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.
Sally Quinn
45.
Sometimes silence is the most effective tool to make impact, and sometimes loud and big is the trick.
Per Hallberg