Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Blaise Pascal

2.

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

Voltaire

3.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

4.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

5.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

6.

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

Muhammad Ali

7.

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

8.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

9.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Engel, Silvan

11.

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

Zacharia

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

14.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

15.

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

Plutarch

16.

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

17.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

18.

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

Ausonius

19.

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

20.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

21.

Those that are silent profess consent.

22.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

23.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

27.

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

John Tillotson

28.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

29.

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

30.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

31.

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

Dante Alighieri

32.

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

Beaumont, Francis

33.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

34.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

35.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

36.

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

Bagehot, Walter

37.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

38.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

39.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

40.

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

Seneca

41.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

42.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Young, Brigham

48.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

49.

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