Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Plutarch

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Samuel Johnson

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

10.

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

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

20.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

21.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

22.

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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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

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Those that are silent profess consent.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Musonnius

27.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Zacharia

35.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

41.

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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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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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

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Dickson, R A

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Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

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

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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