Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

- Brownlow, Leroy

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

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

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

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

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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 are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Zacharia

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Engel, Silvan

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Ausonius

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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