Motivational Quotes

Silence

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

- Horace

Best Quotes about Silence

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

William Penn

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Zacharia

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

William Shakespeare

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Samuel Johnson

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

10.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

12.

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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

14.

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 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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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

O'Malley, Austin

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

36.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Musonnius

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Those that are silent profess consent.

44.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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.