Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Seneca

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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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.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

12.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

13.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

14.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

15.

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

Marceau, Marcel

16.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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.

19.

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

Young, Brigham

20.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

21.

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

Samuel Johnson

22.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

23.

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

Dante Alighieri

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

26.

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

Engel, Silvan

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

30.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

33.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

34.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

35.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

36.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

37.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

38.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

39.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

40.

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

Dickson, R A

41.

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

42.

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

43.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

44.

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

Zacharia

45.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

46.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

47.

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

Musonnius

48.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

Beckett, Samuel