Motivational Quotes

Silence

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

- Helprin, Mark

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Smith, Sydney

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Bible

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

O'Malley, Austin

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.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Musonnius

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Zacharia

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

Engel, Silvan

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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 never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

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

Dickson, R A

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Dante Alighieri

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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