Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Dickson, R A

3.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

8.

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

Samuel Johnson

9.

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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

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

12.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

15.

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

Abraham Lincoln

16.

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

17.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

18.

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

Muhammad Ali

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Zacharia

22.

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

Ausonius

23.

Those that are silent profess consent.

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

26.

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

Beaumont, Francis

27.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

34.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

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

Marceau, Marcel

36.

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

37.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

38.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

39.

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

John Tillotson

40.

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

41.

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

Plutarch

42.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

43.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

44.

Oppression can only survive through silence.