Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

2.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

Abraham Lincoln

7.

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

8.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

9.

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

Young, Brigham

10.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

13.

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

14.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

15.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

16.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

17.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Bagehot, Walter

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

27.

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

28.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

29.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

30.

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

Plutarch

31.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Musonnius

33.

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

Beckett, Samuel

34.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

35.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

36.

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

Blaise Pascal

37.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

38.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

39.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

40.

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

41.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

42.

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

43.

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

Engel, Silvan

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

48.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

49.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace