Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Father Quotes, Silence Quotes

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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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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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

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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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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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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

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To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

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Her silence was the blank space between the words.

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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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