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.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

2.

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

Marceau, Marcel

3.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

4.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

5.

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

Proverb, Arabian

6.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

7.

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

8.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

9.

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

Dickson, R A

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

13.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

14.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

15.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

17.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

18.

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

Samuel Johnson

19.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

27.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

29.

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

Blaise Pascal

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

35.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

36.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

37.

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

Abraham Lincoln

38.

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

Beckett, Samuel

39.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

41.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

42.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

43.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

44.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

45.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

46.

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

Zacharia

47.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

48.

Those that are silent profess consent.

49.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Richards, Edward Hersey

50.

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