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Pythagoras Quote: 'Silence is better than unmeaning words. ...'

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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.


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


Plutarch
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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.


Adrienne Rich
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.


Mahatma Gandhi
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Wayne Dyer
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Marianne Wiggins
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.


Martin Luther
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Robert Stone
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
Lady Gregory
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In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
Robert Sternberg
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.


Emile M. Cioran
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.


Zinedine Zidane
What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.
Harvey Keitel
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Daniel Barenboim
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You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.
Ron Johnson
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