Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Gossip Quotes, Silence Quotes

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

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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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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Silence Quotes

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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

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Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Silence Quotes

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

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The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Silence Quotes , House Quotes

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Silence Quotes , World Quotes

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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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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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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Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

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One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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