Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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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

11.

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

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

Ausonius

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Musonnius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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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

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

Plutarch

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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