All Quotes
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.Kahlil Gibran
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi