Motivational Quotes

Silence

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

2.

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

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

4.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

5.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

6.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

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

Musonnius

8.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

10.

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

11.

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

13.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

14.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

15.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

16.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

17.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

18.

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

19.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

20.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

21.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

22.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

23.

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

Blaise Pascal

24.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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

Bible

26.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

30.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

32.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

34.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

35.

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

O'Malley, Austin

36.

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

Beaumont, Francis

37.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

38.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

39.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

40.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.

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

42.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

43.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.