Motivational Quotes

Silence

Oppression can only survive through silence.

- Carmen de Monteflores

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smith, Sydney

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Dante Alighieri

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Bagehot, Walter

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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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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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

22.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

23.

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

Seneca

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

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

29.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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