Motivational Quotes

Silence

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

- Hardy, Thomas

Best Quotes about Silence

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Dickson, R A

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

10.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Musonnius

13.

Those that are silent profess consent.

14.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

15.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

29.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

30.

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

31.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Blaise Pascal

33.

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

34.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)