Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Silence

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

William Shakespeare

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Voltaire

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

11.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

13.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dante Alighieri

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

18.

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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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

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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

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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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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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

William Penn

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

29.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Blaise Pascal

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

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

37.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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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.

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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

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

Musonnius

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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

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Ausonius

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Young, Brigham