Motivational Quotes

Silence

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Abraham Lincoln

2.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

3.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

4.

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

5.

Those that are silent profess consent.

6.

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

7.

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

Marceau, Marcel

8.

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

Young, Brigham

9.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

14.

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

15.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

17.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

21.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

22.

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

23.

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

Bagehot, Walter

24.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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

Dante Alighieri

26.

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

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Engel, Silvan

28.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

29.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

30.

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

31.

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

32.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores