Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

Those that are silent profess consent.

13.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

14.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

15.

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

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

Muhammad Ali

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

22.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

23.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

26.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

27.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

28.

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

Zacharia

29.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

31.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

33.

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

Blaise Pascal

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Dickson, R A

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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

40.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Boehme, Jacob

43.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Musonnius

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

48.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

Syrus, Publilius

50.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross