Silence
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Silence is a source of great strength.
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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