Motivational Quotes

Silence

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

- Hardy, Thomas

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

2.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

3.

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

4.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

5.

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

Proverb, Arabian

6.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

10.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Musonnius

14.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

15.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

18.

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

Beaumont, Francis

19.

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

Muhammad Ali

20.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

21.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

22.

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

Marceau, Marcel

23.

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

24.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Engel, Silvan

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

30.

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

Bagehot, Walter

31.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

32.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Samuel Johnson

41.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

42.

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

43.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

44.

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

Ausonius

45.

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

46.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

48.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

49.

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

50.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston