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«There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words»
«There are times when silence has the loudest voice»
«The cruelest lies are often told in silence.»
«Speech is oft repented, silence never»
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
clearer, collision, collisions, deprived, deprived of, dissent, dissenting opinion, exchanging, existing, Great A, human error, Human perception, impression, livelier, peculiar, perception, posterity, produced, robbing, silencing
«The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words»
«Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.»
«There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence»
«The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
avoids, correction, corrections, kills, transgressed, transgressing
«The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Innocence,
Silence
| Keywords:
innocence, persuades, The Silence
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