Robert Burns Quotes, Learning Quotes, Silence Quotes

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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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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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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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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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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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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I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

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

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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

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