A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.
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Roy T. Bennett
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
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Alfred Brendel
Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.
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Anthony T. Hincks
When you remain silent, your voice is the loudest.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
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Dejan Stojanovic
More Quotes By T. S. Eliot
How wild it was, to let it be.
We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine
You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
