Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Crapsey, Adelaide

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

Those that are silent profess consent.

4.

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

Seneca

5.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

6.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

7.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Blaise Pascal

11.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

12.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

13.

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

Ausonius

14.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

15.

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

16.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

17.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

18.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

19.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

20.

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

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

24.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

27.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

28.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Plutarch

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

38.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

39.

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

William Penn

40.

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

Abraham Lincoln

41.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

42.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

43.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

44.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

45.

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

Dickson, R A

46.

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

47.

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

Abraham Lincoln

48.

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

49.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

50.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide