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.

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

2.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

3.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

4.

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

Abraham Lincoln

5.

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

Bagehot, Walter

6.

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

7.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

8.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

9.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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

11.

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

Samuel Johnson

12.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

13.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

14.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

15.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

16.

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

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

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.

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.

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

John Tillotson

23.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

24.

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

25.

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

Engel, Silvan

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Ausonius

28.

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

29.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

30.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

31.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

34.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

35.

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

36.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

39.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

40.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

41.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

42.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

43.

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

44.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

45.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

46.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

47.

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

48.

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

Beaumont, Francis

49.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

50.

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