Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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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

2.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

3.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

4.

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

Syrus, Publilius

5.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

6.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

7.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

8.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

9.

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

10.

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

William Penn

12.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

13.

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

Beaumont, Francis

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

16.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

17.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

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

19.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

20.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

21.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

22.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Blaise Pascal

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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

25.

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

Muhammad Ali

26.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

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

O'Malley, Austin

30.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

31.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

32.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

33.

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

Zacharia

34.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

36.

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

Dante Alighieri

37.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

38.

Those that are silent profess consent.

39.

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

Ausonius

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

Dickson, R A

43.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Musonnius

49.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon