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

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

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

Voltaire

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

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

10.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

11.

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

O'Malley, Austin

12.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

13.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

14.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

15.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

16.

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

Proverb, Arabian

17.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

26.

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

27.

Those that are silent profess consent.

28.

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

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

32.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

33.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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

35.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Abraham Lincoln

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