Motivational Quotes

Silence

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

2.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

3.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

4.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

5.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

6.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

7.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

8.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

9.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

10.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

11.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

12.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

13.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

15.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

16.

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

18.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

19.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

20.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

21.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

22.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

23.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

24.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

25.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

26.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

27.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

28.

Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

29.

Those that are silent profess consent.

30.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

33.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

34.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

35.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

36.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

37.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

38.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

39.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.