Motivational Quotes

Silence

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

- Helprin, Mark

Best Quotes about Silence

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Beckett, Samuel

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

11.

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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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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 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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Zacharia

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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 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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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 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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Engel, Silvan

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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.

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Plutarch

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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