Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

2.

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

3.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

4.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

5.

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

6.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

7.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

8.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

9.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

10.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

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

Beckett, Samuel

14.

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

Abraham Lincoln

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Seneca

23.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Blaise Pascal

26.

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

Plutarch

27.

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

28.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

O'Malley, Austin

32.

Those that are silent profess consent.

33.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

34.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

35.

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

Musonnius

36.

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

Dante Alighieri

37.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Ausonius

41.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

42.

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.

43.

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