Quotes for: silence

Quotes for: silence

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Silence is often the truest wisdom.
Pindar

If you have words stronger than silence, speak. If you do not have them, then remain silent.
Euripides

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What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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It is a brief refusal when the wise man meets a request with silence.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the great revelation.
Laozi

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In time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
Seneca

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If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
Bertrand Russell

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise Pascal

Great souls endure in silence.
Friedrich Schiller

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Arthur Rimbaud

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

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