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Nothing is more useful than silence.


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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing noth...
UNKNOWN A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
ANNIE DILLARD I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is mo...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is more eloquent than words
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
GEORGE HERBERT A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
WASHINGTON IRVING The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence the...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
JODI PICOULT ...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyo...
MURIEL BARBERY ...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing mo...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
PROVERB There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is ...
TOM BLAIR Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is ...
TOM BLAIR Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance
WINSTON CHURCHILL Sometimes it is the methods of learning, more so, than what is learned, that is useful!
GARRETT MCCOY A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise though...
DIODICUS A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all i...
G. H. HARDY Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETT Hang out with wise people and you will realize that there is nothing better for man than silence.
VIKRANT PARSAI Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
JOSEPH ADDISON Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FRAQUHAR TUPPER Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
MARGARET HALSEY Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.
CAROLYN CHUTE There’s nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
JODI PICOULT Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
SALMAN RUSHDIE It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.
J. CORNELL MICHEL Her silence should be feared more than her words.
PIPER PAYNE Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutt...
BILL WALSH There is not much more beautiful in the world than the silence of snow.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more rea...
DEEPAK CHOPRA real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
LUC MONTAGNIER My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.
NINA CONTI A double-edged sword was more useful than no weapon at all.
CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words
GREEK PROVERB The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of angu...
SIMONA PANOVA There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.


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CONFUCIUS In theory this is useful but in practice I would not expect more than changes at the margin.
DANIEL GROS It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable s...
ISABEL ALLENDE There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they...
MARK LAWRENCE Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.
BRYANT MCGILL Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Survival is nothing more than recovery.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
CORNELIA FUNKE Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
ARTHUR PHILLIP Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opini...
SHERI S. TEPPER There is nothing more important in this world than this. Nothing.
ASHLEY JUDD Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
MARILU HENNER Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is advers...
PLUTARCH Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
PICO IYER Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Nothing is worth more than this day.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE Nothing is more healing than live music.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.
NICK LANE Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
ROBERT GARY LEE story is nothing more than forged documents.
RUSH LIMBAUGH Nothing is more adroit than irreproachable conduct
MADAME DE MAINTENON Nothing is more tiring than being idle.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.
SONIA RUMZI Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
GERALD VANN Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity
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