Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

2.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

3.

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

Marceau, Marcel

4.

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

5.

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

Zacharia

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Dickson, R A

9.

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.

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Abraham Lincoln

12.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

13.

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

Ausonius

14.

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

15.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

19.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

22.

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

O'Malley, Austin

23.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

26.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

27.

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

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Plutarch

29.

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

30.

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

Young, Brigham

31.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

37.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

38.

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

John Tillotson

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

Dante Alighieri

42.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

43.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

44.

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

45.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

46.

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

Seneca

47.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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