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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Zacharia

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

John Tillotson

15.

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

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

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

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

Plutarch

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Blaise Pascal

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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.

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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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

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

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

Dante Alighieri

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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

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

William Penn

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

Voltaire

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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