Socrates
Philosopher
"Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise."
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Noise
414 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
Philosopher
"I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise."
Isabel Allende
Novelist
"Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences."
Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"Noise makes no good, good makes no noise."
Robert Carlyle
Actor
"I rant and rave about noise pollution."
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"Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around."
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"There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!"
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"There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent."
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"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."
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"No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!"
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"It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise."
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"The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."
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"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise."
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"There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise."
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"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
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"Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate."
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"We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise."
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"To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you."
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"Jet ski and wild noises."
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"I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it."
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"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought."
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"A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think."
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"A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away."
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"Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them."
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