Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Silence

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

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

Ausonius

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

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Seneca

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

Zacharia

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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

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Young, Brigham

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Dickson, R A

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

Voltaire

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

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

John Tillotson

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plutarch

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Blaise Pascal

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beaumont, Francis