Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
-- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian writer and philosophe...
He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
-- Proverbs 11:12...
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
-- Proverbs 17:28...
He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
-- Marcus Porcius Cato, (234-149 BC), Roman statesma...
Silence is a friend who will never betray. -- Confucius, (551-479 BC), Chinese sage, philosophe
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syru
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
-- attributed to Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865), 16th President of the U.S....
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. -- St Augustine.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
-- Benjamin Disraeli...
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know i
as I would be clean for my own sake, although nobody were to see me. -- Shaftesbury...

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