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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

13.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

14.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

17.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

20.

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

Samuel Johnson

21.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

22.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

23.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

24.

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

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

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

30.

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

Ausonius

31.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

32.

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

William Penn

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

Abraham Lincoln

35.

Those that are silent profess consent.

36.

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

37.

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Abraham Lincoln

39.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

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