Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Silence

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.

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

Ausonius

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

Syrus, Publilius

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Blaise Pascal

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

11.

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

Beckett, Samuel

12.

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

13.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

14.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

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

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

Muhammad Ali

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

19.

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

John Tillotson

20.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

21.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

22.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

23.

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

24.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

25.

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

26.

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

Zacharia

27.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

28.

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

29.

Those that are silent profess consent.

30.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

34.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

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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

37.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

39.

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

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Smith, Sydney

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

44.

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

45.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

46.

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

47.

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

Abraham Lincoln

48.

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

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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

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