Quietness Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old quietness quotes, quietness sayings, and quietness proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
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There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
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It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
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Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
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My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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In quietness we find inner peace.
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
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Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
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Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.
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Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.
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To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.
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The true lasting quietness comes from a complete consecration to the Divine.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
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True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.
