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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Voltaire

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Young, Brigham

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

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

12.

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

Beckett, Samuel

13.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

14.

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

Engel, Silvan

15.

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

Dickson, R A

16.

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

Bagehot, Walter

17.

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

19.

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

20.

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

Abraham Lincoln

21.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

27.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

28.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

29.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

31.

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

32.

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

Musonnius

33.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

34.

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

Ausonius

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

37.

Those that are silent profess consent.

38.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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.

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

Marceau, Marcel

44.

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

Abraham Lincoln

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Beaumont, Francis

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

William Penn

50.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.