Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

- Guevara, Che

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Bagehot, Walter

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Blaise Pascal

11.

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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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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

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

John Tillotson

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Ausonius

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

Zacharia

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Engel, Silvan

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Beckett, Samuel

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Musonnius

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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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