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Sophocles Quote: “Don’t you know that silence supports…”

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?

December 9, 2019 496 BC, Greek, Quotes by Poets, Sophocles

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote: “Meditation is to be aware of…”

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

December 6, 2019 1895, Indian, Jiddu Krishnamurti, May 12, Quotes by Philosophers

Felicia Hemans Quote: “Strength is born in the deep…”

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

November 28, 2019 1793, British, Felicia Hemans, Quotes by Poets

Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Speech is human, silence is divine…”

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

November 27, 2019 1795, December 4, Quotes by Philosophers, Scottish, Thomas Carlyle

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote: “History will have to record that…”

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

November 17, 2019 1929, American, January 15, Jr., Martin Luther King, Quotes by Leaders

Plutarch Quote: “Silence at the proper season is…”

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

October 12, 2019 46, Greek, Plutarch, Quotes by Philosophers

Albert Camus Quote: “The world is never quiet, even…”

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

October 8, 2019 1913, Albert Camus, French, November 7, Quotes by Philosophers

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote: “Have you not noticed that love…”

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

October 2, 2019 1895, Indian, Jiddu Krishnamurti, May 12, Quotes by Philosophers

William Drummond Quote: “There is a silence, the child…”

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

September 28, 2019 1585, December 13, Quotes by Poets, Scottish, William Drummond

William Rose Benet Quote: “And now there is merely silence…”

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

September 21, 2019 1886, American, February 2, Quotes by Poets, William Rose Benet

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