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Silent Quotes - Page 5

Nothing is more useful than silence.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Ex Incert. Comœd", p. 216), 1922.

A sky full of silent suns.

Jean Paul (1892). “Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. (A Genuine Thorn Piece)”

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

"Trumps of Doom (The Second Chronicles of Amber, Book 1)". Book by Roger Zelazny (Chapter 6, p. 108), May 1985.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.21, Open Road Media

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

William Hamilton Maxwell (1833). “Stories of Waterloo”, p.4

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

Laozi (2005). “Tao te ching: a new translation & commentary”

Hear, see, and be silent.

Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

"An A-Z of the piano: Alfred Brendel's notes from the concert hall" by Alfred Brendel, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.81

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

"'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Chapter CLXIII, 1756.