Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

- Guevara, Che

Best Quotes about Silence

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.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Voltaire

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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

Dante Alighieri

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Muhammad Ali

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Ausonius

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

Seneca

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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

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

Dickson, R A

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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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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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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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Proverb, Arabian

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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