Silence is better than unmeaning words.


Pythagoras

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Your silence is a better reply than your words to those who don’t deserve you.
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A)
Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Silence is more eloquent than words
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sometimes stunned silence is better than applause.
JENNY LAWSON
Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Her silence should be feared more than her words.
PIPER PAYNE
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking
MOORISH PROVERB
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
MOORISH PROVERB
The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words
GREEK PROVERB
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH
The power of silence in an altercation is stronger than any harsh words created by frustration
MARCUS MITCHELL
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH
Be silent, or say something better than silence
GERMAN PROVERB
Why do we need words when sometimes silence is the perfect answer? Why do we need words when they ar...
CLAIRE BURROUGHS PEREZ
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS
Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth
ANNE RICE
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIP BROOKS
It is better to inhale words than to exhale stories.
ARSLAN AHMAD
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
JOHN BUNYAN
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
MAHATMA GANDHI
It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart! -John Bunyan.
JOHN BUNYAN
If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
CONFUCIUS
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICH
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICH
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
JOHN BUNYAN
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dish...
JOHN MILTON
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl ...
PYTHAGORAS
You might not realize it but your silence will always affect people even more than your words do.
ANDONI GARCIA
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
BUDDHA
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
BUDDHA
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Hang out with wise people and you will realize that there is nothing better for man than silence.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder...
PLUTARCH
Deeds are better things than words are, actions mightier than boastings
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two works better than those.
ANONYMOUS
Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.
NEMA AL-ARABY
Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB
One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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PIERRE BOURDIEU
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One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.
DONNA LYNN HOPE
Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.
RACHEL VINCENT
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of word...
EDUARDO GALEANO
Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the language...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The alternative is getting into fist fights. Even hot words are better than fist fights.
CRAIG GRAU
Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and ...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
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DANIEL TAMMET
Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Silence is safer than speech.
EPICTETUS
The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is mo...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Her silence was the blank space between the words.
PAULO COELHO
Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA
Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all ...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
ALFRED DAY HERSHEY
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
CHARLES SIMIC
We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
RAM DASS
Nothing is more useful than silence.
MENANDER
Nothing is more useful than silence.
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Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of JOHANNES KEPLER Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
Words can kill few People, But silence can kill everyone
AANCHAL BHATEJA
Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, b...
CORNELIA FUNKE
The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
MUSONNIUS
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
MOTHER TERESA
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
LEROY BROWNLOW
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
C.S. LEWIS
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
JAVAN
Harsh words can inflict wounds. But silence can shatter a heart.
JOHN B. BEJO
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
ASHISH KUMAR
The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, wh...
MARK TWAIN
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
BRIGHAM YOUNG
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE
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There's as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when si...
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In gratitude and joy, my heart sings better than ever in words I could.
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—¿Y para qué valen...
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Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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