Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

- Brownlow, Leroy

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Abraham Lincoln

2.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

3.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

4.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

5.

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

6.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

7.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

8.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

9.

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

12.

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

William Penn

13.

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

14.

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

15.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

18.

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

Zacharia

19.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

24.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Beaumont, Francis

27.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

28.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

29.

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

Beckett, Samuel

30.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

32.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

33.

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

Dickson, R A

34.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

Those that are silent profess consent.

36.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

39.

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

Ausonius

40.

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

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

Samuel Johnson

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

45.

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

46.

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

Marceau, Marcel

47.

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

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

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

50.

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