Xenocrates Quotes

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• Honest communication is a rare thing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Communication
  • Honest
  • Rare

• I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Important
  • Actor
  • Communication

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Information

• Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Life
  • Guy
  • You

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • Man
  • Communication

• Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Today
  • Communication
  • Gossip

• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Silence
  • Write
  • Own

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Communication

• They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Night
  • Hand
  • Dark

• I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Believe
  • Suicide

• I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Books
  • Many
  • Possessions

• You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Girl
  • Shadow
  • Drawer

• The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want to cherish, of course, and to learn from and to continue and to add whatever I can add.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • World
  • Great

• I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Silence
  • Communication
  • Tongue