Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Silence

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

11.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

12.

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

13.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

14.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Plutarch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Zacharia

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

Dickson, R A

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Seneca

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Marceau, Marcel

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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Ausonius

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

39.

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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Musonnius

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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

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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