Victor Hugo Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Silence Quotes

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

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One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Art Quotes , Silence Quotes

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

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To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Silence Quotes , Stopping Quotes

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

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