Silence
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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.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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.
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.
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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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