Silence gives consent. ... by Plato from life Quotes and Sayings

Silence gives consent. ...
by Plato

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows;
your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
- Osho

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau

We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa

"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill

Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus

We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller

New Year's eve is like every other night;
there is no pause in the march of the universe,
no breathless moment of silence among created things
that the passage of another twelve months may be noted;
and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening
that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

Existence needs you.
Without you, something will be missing
in existence and nobody can replace it.
Thats what gives you dignity,
that the whole existence will miss you.
- Osho

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous

Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard

Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins

Worrying is like a rocking chair,
it gives you something to do,
but it gets you nowhere.
- Glenn Turner

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes

Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran

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