Top 35 Quotes On Virtue Of Silence
#1. The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is to talk little, but to hear much. . . . - SAMUEL & SARAH ADAMS, THE COMPLETE SERVANT, 1825
Julie Klassen
#2. There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
Margaret Atwood
#3. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato The Elder
#4. This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation.
Jennifer Niven
#5. Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
Henry Ward Beecher
#6. Be patient I promise you deeper level will be very deeper level.
Deyth Banger
#7. Bees will not work except in darkness;
Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#8. It reminded Freddy of the World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.
Richard Phillips
#9. I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
Cate Blanchett
#10. When technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.
Sherry Turkle
#11. Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
Criss Jami
#12. To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Alphonsus Liguori
#14. True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self.
Deepak Chopra
#15. I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'
Conor Oberst
#16. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Cato The Younger
#17. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
William Howard Taft
#18. Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne
#19. In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of the libraries.
Joseph-Arthur De Gobineau
#20. Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#21. There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
Tadeusz Borowski
#22. You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.
Edward Snowden
#23. Where do writers get their ideas from? Anywhere and everywhere.
Nothing is sacred.
Darynda Jones
#24. To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
Ovid
#25. Does running water stop when it reaches a rock? Of course not. It turns either left or right, and continues its way. Likewise, a positive person is confident that no challenge will stand in the way of achieving his or her goal.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#26. Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.
Doreen Virtue
#27. I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
Robert Rodriguez
#28. Once you make a conscious connection between your physical personality (what you know as you here in this body) and the Eternal Non-Physical Consciousness (what is really You), you can then get on with the reason you were born into this physical life experience.
Esther
#29. Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.
Kathi Appelt
#31. A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
Saadi
#33. In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.
Czeslaw Milosz
#35. Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven.
St. John Climacus
