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Quotes about silence
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation. (Ali Muhammad)
From politics it was an easy step to silence. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is the virtue of fools. (Ali Muhammad)
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. (Ali Muhammad)
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. (Ali Muhammad)
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. (Ali Muhammad)
When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began. (Ali Muhammad)
There are times when silence has the loudest voice. (Ali Muhammad)
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is more eloquent than words. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. (Ali Muhammad)
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. (Ali Muhammad)
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. (Ali Muhammad)
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. (Ali Muhammad)
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. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is the unbearable repartee. (Ali Muhammad)
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. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being. (Ali Muhammad)
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. (Ali Muhammad)
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. (Ali Muhammad)
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. (Ali Muhammad)
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled. (Ali Muhammad)
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