Motivational Quotes

Silence

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

- Arp, Jean

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Voltaire

2.

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

3.

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

Smith, Sydney

4.

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

Zacharia

5.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Musonnius

8.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

9.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

10.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

11.

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

12.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

13.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

14.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

15.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

16.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

17.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

18.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

19.

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

Blaise Pascal

20.

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

Marceau, Marcel

21.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

24.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

25.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

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

John Tillotson

29.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

30.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

31.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

32.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

35.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

36.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

37.

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

Proverb, Arabian

38.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

39.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

40.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

41.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

42.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

43.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

44.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

45.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

46.

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

47.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

48.

Those that are silent profess consent.

49.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

50.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon