Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Hubbard, Kin

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

10.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

11.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

12.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

14.

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 eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

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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

17.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

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

19.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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

21.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

24.

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

Dickson, R A

27.

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

John Tillotson

28.

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

Beaumont, Francis

29.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Ausonius

31.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Seneca

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

40.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

46.

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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.